Chaos as Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz in angry faceoff

Chaos erupted at the MGM Grand last night as a pre-fight press conference ahead of Conor McGregor’s UFC 202 rematch with Nate Diaz descended first into farce and then threatened to descend into a full-on riot.

Tensions between McGregor and the UFC had come bubbling back to the surface when the Notorious one turned up over a half hour late for the final pre-fight press conference at the casino’s David Copperfield Theatre.

When he did eventually show, McGregor was midway through answering his second question when Diaz stormed off the stage and made for the exits with his entourage. As they shouted obscenities down at McGregor’s camp sat stage left, the slanging match took a turn for the worse when the camps started to launch water bottles and cans at each other with media caught somewhere in the crossfire and the fans at the back of the arena going wild.