A full 15 years after taking a €70 loan off his old boxing coach to buy plumbing tools, Conor McGregor has repaid him.
Paddy Brady gave the now multi-millionaire cash to buy equipment when he was training to become a plumber years before he became famous.
'The Notorious' returned to Crumlin Boxing Club, where Brady used to train him alongside two-time Olympian Phil Sutcliffe, for an exhibition fight last week and gave his former coach a cheque.
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Brady told MMA Fighting's Eurobash: "That’s the money owes me from 15 years ago.
"I got him his tools when he was going off to do his plumbing and he never paid me back. Every time I see him I say, ‘Don’t forget you owe me that few bob’."
Sutcliffe added: "It was a joke between a few of us, it was going around the whole club,’
"We had a picture in the gym of Paddy saying [Conor owed him money] on Sky television before the Mayweather fight.
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"Conor was slagging him and he wrote him a cheque for 70 quid. Now, the cheque isn’t going to be cashed, it’s going to be photographed with a picture of the two of them and it’s going up on the wall."
Meanwhile, the man who fought McGregor in the exhibition match claims the UFC star caught him with the worst cheap shot he's ever suffered.
Amateur boxer Michael McGrane told TMZ: "It was the cheapest shot I ever caught in me life, man.
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"You're meant to go back to your corner, but Conor never went back to his corner. He leaped at me with a left hook."
He added: "Conor McGregor hit me a cheap shot in his own hometown!
"The ref was on his side. There's no way I would have won that fight unless I knocked him out."
But McGrane was delighted to share the ring with the former two-weight UFC champion in the boxing club where McGregor first tried his hand at the fighting game aged 12.
The Notorious hasn't fought in a boxing match since his mega-money 2017 bout with Floyd Mayweather, which was believed to have earned him €100 million.
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He is currently in talks for a UFC return this year, despite announcing his retirement with a social media post last month.
His last UFC fight ended by fourth round submission to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October last year at UFC 229.
