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Robert Hynes

Conor McGregor struggles to drive away as he's surrounded by hundreds of fans outside restaurant

Conor McGregor struggled to get home from a restaurant in the early hours of Sunday morning as he was surrounded by hundreds of fans in America.

The UFC star faces Dustin Poirier in a trilogy fight next weekend and was mobbed by fans as he left an eatery in California.

McGregor shared a video on his Instagram account, which showed a huge crowd going wild as he exited the restaurant.

A stunned McGregor can be heard saying: "Jesus Christ. Look at this."

He then starts shadow boxing as the crowd, who had to be held back by police, cheer before hoping into a luxury white convertible car.

But the Dubliner struggles to get out of the car park due to the volume of people surrounding his car as he says: "I think I'm stuck."

Eventually McGregor is able to leave the car park but he is chased down the road by a number of fans before he is eventually directed home on radio.

Meanwhile, Poirier says he does not "give a f**k" if he is confronted by "crazy" McGregor ahead of UFC 264.

"The good thing about this one is if it’s crazy Conor again, I just don’t give a f**k anymore," he told ESPN.

"I really don’t care. And in the last one too, if he’d have been crazy, I’d have been alright. Mentally, I'm just not a kid anymore.

"I'm a grown man and I know what matters and I know what I can't control. I just don't beat myself up mentally like I used to with the critics.

"I think it’s going to be crazy Conor again, I’m pretty sure. How crazy can you be (though)? You got knocked out last time.

"We put you on airplane mode in front of the world, in Abu Dhabi. What can you say?"

Poirier has said he wants a "blood and guts war" with McGregor, adding: "If I was him, I would try to touch me early and keep me out of rhythm.

Dustin Poirier punches Conor McGregor (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

"Because if this thing starts to blossom into a fight, second, third, fourth, we start hurting in there, we start grinding it out, getting into a rhythm, I win that ten out of ten times.

"I want a blood and guts war, I want to question my will to fight, I want to be uncomfortable from the first second of the first round, I want to find out all this stuff.

"That's the thing about fighting, the only thing that's real is when that bell rings or whenever you show up and you're training, that's the only thing about fighting I love any more.

"Everything else is, who can say some cool s*** and get a lot of likes on Instagram, get a lot of followers, who can do some kind of funny video. It’s disgusting, it’s a fashion show, it’s all fake.

"The real part about it, when that bell rings, it’s a hundred percent real. I want to find that out about him, ‘you talk it up, but let’s see who really wants to fight’ because I know I can count on me."

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