Conor McGregor and the Paul brothers are buddying up in the nation’s capital.
The controversial MMA fighter was heading to Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday morning in Washington, D.C., carpooling with two long-rumored potential boxing opponents: Jake and Logan Paul.
The trio co-posted a carousel of images featuring their smiling mugs to their Instagram accounts with the caption, “Inauguration going great.”
YouTuber and Nelk Boy Kyle Forgeard was also on the bus and posted his own video of the fighters laughing it up.
“We got an interesting bus ride to the inauguration here,” Forgeard commentates before flipping the camera around to reveal McGregor seated beside Jake and Logan’s mother, Pam Stepnick, and the brothers one row in front of them.
“Couple best friends?” Forgeard asks.
Jake Paul leans over and into the camera, giggling, “I’m gonna kill him.”
Seated several rows further up was podcaster and comedian Theo Von, who, apparently jealous of all the fun being had in the back of the bus, was captured on video with his head turned 180 degrees issuing a warning to McGregor: “Keep your hands off Pam.”
Chatter about a presumptive boxing match between McGregor, 36, and Logan, 29, or Jake, 28, has picked up significant traction in the wake of the civil trial brought against the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion.
In November 2024, McGregor was found liable by a jury in Ireland for “brutally rap[ing] and batter[ing]” a woman in a hotel penthouse after a night of heavy partying in 2018.
McGregor said on social media last month that he and Logan Paul had agreed to face each other in a boxing match in India this year.
The event, allegedly “almost confirmed,” has been “tied to India’s Visit India tourism campaign, and would take place at Mumbai’s iconic 33,000-capacity Wankhede cricket stadium,” the Times of India reports.
“I have agreed,” McGregor wrote in a post to X on Dec. 17. “I will then seek my return to the Octagon.”
McGregor is now facing another civil suit from a different anonymous woman who claimed the fighter sexually assaulted her at the Kaseya Center, home to the Miami Heat, on June 9, 2023.
It’s not clear how the suit would affect McGregor’s fighting aspirations.
