Conor McGregor Calls Out Khabib for NFTs, Will get Shut Down by ZachXBT

UFC star Conor McGregor criticized former rival Khabib Nurmagomedov for his non-fungible token (NFT) drop on Telegram, which featured digital “papakhas” — a conventional hat worn in Nurmagomedov’s native nation of Dagestan. 

“There may be simply no approach good man Khabib used his late father’s title, in addition to Dagestan’s tradition, to rip-off his followers and fireplace promote a bunch of digital NFTs on-line,” McGregor wrote in a now-deleted X submit. 

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT responded to McGregor, declaring that McGregor tried to launch his personal movie star memecoin in April referred to as REAL. ZachXBT mentioned:

“There may be simply no approach good man McGregor used his status, in addition to Irish tradition, to rip-off his followers and fireplace promote a bunch of digital tokens on-line after which delete all the posts after they had been bought, leaving his followers robbed of their cash?” 

McGregor’s REAL token was supplied to potential patrons in a sealed-bid public sale to forestall snipers and automatic buying and selling bots from manipulating costs at launch. It featured staking rewards for holders, but it surely solely managed to boost 39% of its goal launch objective. 

The funds that had been raised had been refunded to members following the failed launch, based on McGregor. The failure of the token was as a result of a number of components, together with a broad downturn within the crypto market on the time and a memecoin bear market.