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Conor McGregor UFC news: Notorious repays €70 loan to former boxing coach 15 years later

Conor McGregor has repaid a €70 loan to his former boxing coach 15 years after borrowing the money.

Paddy Brady got The Notorious tools when he was training to be a plumber years before he became famous.

McGregor returned to Crumlin Boxing Club, where Brady once coached him alongside two-time Olympian Phil Sutcliffe, for an exhibition fight last week and gave his former coach a cheque.

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’."

Conor McGregor and Paddy Brady (Facebook/ Crumlin Boxing Club)

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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.

"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.

Conor McGregor boxes in an exhibition fight at the Crumlin Boxing Club (Paul Hayden)

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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.

Conor McGregor and Michael McGrane after their boxing match (Twitter/ Amy McGrane)

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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.

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.

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