Conor McGregor appears to have argued with another clubber and partied with a number of women just hours before he allegedly smashed a British fan’s phone outside a nightclub in Miami Beach.
In one clip, posted on Instagram, the Irish MMA star seems to be shouting at a bearded man with his arm raised at the LIV club in Miami.
McGregor appears to be edging closer to the man in the video, before the camera pans away.
The footage is believed to have been filmed just hours before the incident outside the famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel at 5am on Monday.
Other footage from inside the club shows McGregor partying with two girls at a VIP table.
In the clip, Conor McGregor appears to be arguing with another reveller with his arm raised
Other videos from inside the club show McGregor partying with two women in the VIP section
He was also seen dancing in a crowd with a group of people, including a woman in a captains hat.
According to an arrest report obtained by the Miami Herald, surveillance footage allegedly shows McGregor slapping a reveller’s phone out of his hand as he was taking a photo and then stomped on it several times.
McGregor then picked up the $1,000 phone and walked away with it, police say.
The reveller who allegedly had his phone smashed by McGregor has been identified by the MailOnline as Ahmed Abdirzak.
Videos posted on Instagram show the MMA superstar partying with a number of people, including this woman in a captains hat
McGregor appears to have been happy to take snaps with revellers, pictured, during the visit to the club
McGregor, pictured in his mugshot, was arrested on Monday evening after police spent the day investigating the incident
His brother, Noah, revealed that Abdirzak works at his father’s Somalian restaurant in Southall, London, and was in Miami on a week-long holiday when he spotted the controversial superstar.
Noah said he had spoken to Abdirzak and told MailOnline: ‘He’s very shaken. Very upset.
‘He’s a fan of McGregor’s. He watches his fights on TV. That’s why he tried to take a picture of him.’
Noah added that he wasn’t sure if his elder brother had asked the Irishman’s permission before taking the photo.
Mr Abdirzak’s father Mahamad, meanwhile, has slammed McGregor, telling MailOnline: ‘What McGregor did is exactly in his character. He’s an angry man.
McGregor shared a photo of his mom’s 60th birthday in Miami Beach on Instagram last week
The MMA fighter, 30, posted a picture of himself on social media with this caption
‘I’m not a fan of his at all. I prefer Khabib (Nurmagomedov). He’s the fighter I like to watch, not McGregor.’
Mr Abdirzak is due back in Britain on Thursday and his brother hopes that the clash with the MMA star won’t affect the rest of his holiday.
Police spent the day investigating the incident before arresting McGregor Monday evening at a home in Miami Beach.
He was booked at Miami-Dade Jail and was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center just after 10pm on $12,500 bail.
McGregor, 30, posted a picture of himself on social media today with the caption: ‘Patience in this world is a virtue I continue to work on. I love my friends dearly. Thank you all’.
He is facing charges of misdemeanor criminal mischief and strong-armed robbery.
McGregor’s attorney’s released the following statement after his arrest: ‘Last evening Conor McGregor was involved a minor altercation over a cell phone that resulted in a call to law enforcement.
‘Mr McGregor appreciates the response of law enforcement and pledges his full cooperation.’
The footage is believed to have been filmed just hours before he allegedly hit a fellow reveller’s phone out of his hand before taking it
Ahmed Abdirzak, pictured, has been revealed as the British fan who allegedly had his iPhone stamped on by the MMA star
McGregor is seen after being released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center just after 10pm on $12,500 bail
The Irish mixed martial arts fighter was in South Florida celebrating his mother’s 60th birthday, according to Instagram photos posted over the weekend.
Monday’s incident came just three days after McGregor completed his probation for a violent altercation last April in Brooklyn when he attacked a bus carrying several UFC fighters by throwing a dolly through a window.
McGregor turned himself in to police the day after the melee and was charged with assault and criminal mischief.
He pleaded guilty in July to a single disorderly conduct charge in a Brooklyn courthouse in order to avoid prison time.
On Friday it was announced that he’d completed five days of community service at churches in Brooklyn and had taken an anger management class.
Had he violated probation, McGregor likely would have been faced jail time along with possible deportation to Ireland.
The rise of Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor makes his entrance before his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in August 2017
Conor McGregor is known for his controversial, bragging persona in and out of the ring, which draws record numbers of viewers to his fights.
The 29-year-old Ultimate Fighting Champion was born in Dublin, Ireland, and began his mixed martial arts career at age 18 in an amateur match for the Irish Ring of Truth in his hometown.
He soon went professional and debuted in the MMA in 2009, collecting wins both as a lightweight and a featherweight.
McGregor is the first European MMA fighter to hold titles from two divisions – featherweight and lightweigh – simultaneously.
In 2013, after being swarmed by requests to sign McGregor to the UFC during a trip to Ireland, the organization’s president Dana White complied and the fighter became the second-ever Irishman to compete for the organization.
McGregor has said that he collected a $200 check from Ireland’s welfare state just one week before his UFC debut, when he was working as a plumber.
He drew the biggest pay-per-view audience for an MMA fight ever when he fought Nate Diaz at UFC 202 in 2016 and defeated him. For that fight he earned $1million, becoming the first UFC fighter to get a seven-figure pay day.
That year he became the first MMA fighter ever to be included on Forbes’ list of highest-paid athletes.
McGregor has been in a relationship with Dee Devlin since 2008 and they share a child, Conor McGregor Jr who was born in May of 2017.
In 2017 he announced he would go on hiatus from the UFC after winning the lightweight championship.
McGregor went on hiatus while undefeated as the lightweight champion but had already lost his featherweight championship.
In August of 2017, McGregor he was paid a reported $30million to fight undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a much-anticipated, yet ultimately uncompetitive match that he lost on the 10th round.
McGregor’s relationship with the UFC hit the rocks in April 2018 when White ruled that he would be stripped of his Lightweight Championship belt because he hadn’t participated in a UFC event since 2016.
The Irishman responded with a profane tweet that said: ‘You’ll strip me of nothing c***s.’
Then two days before the UFC 223 event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, McGregor arrived with an entourage at the end of a media event and triggered a melee in which he threw a dolly at a bus carrying other fighters.
Several fighters were injured by broken glass and two had to miss upcoming fights.
White called the incident the ‘most despicable thing in UFC history’.
McGregor turned himself in to police and was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief.
He pleaded guilty in July to a single disorderly conduct charge in a Brooklyn courthouse in order to avoid prison time.
McGregor returned to the Octagon in August 2018 to challenge Khabib Nurmagomedov for the Lightweight Championship but was defeated in the fourth round in Las Vegas.
He found himself in trouble with the law again in March 2019 after an altercation with a fan outside a nightclub in Miami Beach.
McGregor was arrested and charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief and strong-armed robbery after he allegedly smashed a fan’s phone on March 11.