Video Shows UFC's Conor McGregor Homophobic Rant Backstage, Twitter Erupts

At least two videos taken backstage at a UFC event show Conor McGregor intensely talking in the ear of teammate Artem Lobov, dropping several uses of the word “f*ggot.” But despite the homophobic slurs caught on camera, reactions to the conversation he was having in Gdansk, Poland have been supportive of McGregor.

The videos were posted on Twitter by both the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s official account as well as by broadcast partner BT Sport, MMA Fighting first reported. Both videos have since been deleted but raw copies of the footage are still available on various social media postings. The conversation occurred just following McGregor teammate Lobov’s unanimous-decision loss to Andre Fili as part of the prelims of the UFC card.

The brief backstage clip shows McGregor dropping at least three uses of the word “f*ggot,” although it’s unclear exactly who or what he’s referring to in the footage. It is also not clear whether McGregor was specifically referring to Fili or his team in the homophobic remarks. Regardless, McGregor fans and MMA fans at large immediately took to Twitter to express support for their favorite fighter -- as well as to blast SBNation reporter Marc Raimondi as a "snitch" for writing the story at all.

"The intersection of Raimondi's two favorite beats: McGregor-bashing and homosexual click baiting," reads one tweet responding to Raimondi's story.

"Marc Raimondi jst because u like packing fudge," reads another tweet taking aim at the story author.

"I don’t agree with what he said, but how is OK to be so intrusive?" reads another tweet response.

"You guys are gay mafia too?" reads another tweet directed at MMA Fighting and Raimondi himself.

For his part, Raimondi responded to the slew of negative tweets by pointing out that the official UFC account as well as BT Sport had been the ones to first post the video showing McGregor's rant featuring uses of the word "f*ggot."

Conor McGregor, 29, and his SBG Ireland UFC team came out in support of the country’s same-sex marriage measure being passed in 2015. The world famous fighter tweeted out graphics urging people to support the referendum backing gay marriages.

"We all deserve equal rights," McGregor said in 2015. "We're all human here at the end of the day -- regardless of color, gender, sexuality. Any of that. It's all meaningless. We all deserve the same rights. It just feels right to me."

McGregor’s boxing match last month with Floyd Mayweather ended in a 10^th-round TKO, but earned both fighters tens of millions – if not hundreds of millions of dollars. More than 5 million purchasers of the PPV fight made it one of the best-selling pay-per-view events of all time.

McGregor took flack in the hype events before the Mayweather fight for racial remarks, although he brushed these criticisms off by telling a Brooklyn audience he was “black from the waist down.”