Conor McGregor knocked out by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257; Twitter piles on

Tom Gatto

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Conor McGregor knocked out by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257; Twitter piles on image

Conor McGregor's return to the Octagon lasted all of 1 1/2 rounds Saturday night/Sunday morning on Fight Island. The former two-division UFC champion ate a collection of kicks and strikes from Dustin Poirier in a TKO loss.

Rather than launching himself back into title contention or burnishing his legacy, he was floundering on the canvas, dazed and injured after a brutal loss.

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And while one has to admire any fighter for getting into the cage or ring, that doesn't mean social media will cut them any slack when they get cut down the way McGregor did.

In other words, Twitter — including a guy named Logan Paul — had a lot of fun watching the Irishman get flattened in his rematch with Poirier:

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.