Conor McGregor has announced his arrival on American soil for his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier... sort of.
The UFC star shared a photo on Instagram of himself standing on a street in California in the early hours of Tuesday morning Irish time.
He was standing under an umbrella, holding a cup, wearing a blue tshirt, white tracksuit bottoms and white slippers.
Commenting on the photo, in which there were two large black jeeps parked behind him, McGregor said: "What’s up Cali, the Mac’s back and I’m here to make it rain."
But the post was quickly deleted by the former two-weight champion, who faces Poirier for a third time on July 10 in Las Vegas.
McGregor had been preparing for the bout in Dubai in recent months after suffering a shock defeat to the American back in January.
He has now moved his training setup to America, with John Kavanagh and Owen Roddy having joined McGregor in the Middle East a few weeks ago.
The Dubliner is narrowly the favourite with the bookies to emerge victorious from the UFC 264 main event, but Paulie Malignaggi believes McGregor will lose again.
He said: "I think he's [Conor McGregor] is probably going to get his a-- kicked again, to be honest.
"But that's okay because they [the fans] will tell you that he wasn't focused again, they'll tell you it's because he just sold his whiskey for $600 million.
"Conor has really built a reputation...the pinata himself... you get a prize for beating him up."
