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Conor McGregor appears at 1st Russian football match since World Cup final - this time without Putin
UFC's Conor McGregor made his first appearance at a Russian football match since the 2018 World Cup final, attending CSKA Moscow's game with Ferencvaros, but this time he was not accompained by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
McGregor was a proud honored guest of the Russian president, whom he lauded as "one of the greatest leaders of our time", at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium to take in France's 4-2 win over Croatia in the lashing rain in the Russian capital back in July 2018.
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Upon his second visit to the country as part of a press tour, The Notorious told an expectant crowd in central Moscow on Thursday he would make his UFC comeback on January 18 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, against an unnamed opponent.
The Irishman also announced he would take in a football match that evening, at first however struggling to recalling the team name, before remembering local side CSKA Moscow's Europa League clash against Hungarians Ferencvaros at VEB Arena.
