Conor McGregor roasts PFL during Battle of the Giants: ‘UFC has zero competition in MMA’

Conor McGregor’s tweet-and-delete game was strong on Saturday, when he spent the night mocking the PFL during the Battle of the Giants pay-per-view broadcast.

The former two-division UFC champion made several posts throughout the card that highlighted a lack of action with four out of the five fights ending in decision. The only finish came in the main event when Francis Ngannou demolished Renan Ferreira with a vicious ground-and-pound attack in the first round.

McGregor provided commentary for the Johnny Eblen vs. Fabian Edwards fight in a now deleted video as he reacted to the grappling attack from the Bellator middleweight champion. Again and again, McGregor proclaimed his excitement in a sarcastic tone as he watched Eblen chip away at Edwards on the ground.

“Wow!” McGregor shouted “Oh my god! No! What the hell? Wow. Oh my god! No way! F*ck off. This can’t be happening right now. He’s holding him! How’s he doing this? Oh my god! F*ck off.”

He delivered more of the same during the fight between Cris Cyborg vs. Larissa Pacheco.

“Wow! This is f*cking excitement,” McGregor said. “This is excitement.”

Earlier in the night, McGregor touted his latest business venture with BKFC as a much more exciting product than just about anything else available right now. While he didn’t mention PFL by name, it was rather evident what McGregor was targeting with his message.

“Bare knuckle is where it’s at,” McGregor wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “The future! And the future is now. There is zero feeling of an event dragging on that is ever so prevalent in today’s MMA. More intense. More deadly. More blood. No room for stalling or escaping collision/impact.

“It’s sink or swim in bare knuckle. Nowhere to hide. The nastiest, craziest, wildest sport in today’s market.

As much as he loves bare-knuckle fighting, McGregor still paid homage to the promotion where he fights with a final message that was also deleted at the end of the PFL pay-per-view.

“UFC has zero competition in MMA,” McGregor wrote.

By the time Ngannou was delivering his final punches to dust off Ferreira, McGregor had deleted most of his messages aimed at mocking the PFL in his latest round of social media commentary.