Dee Devlin appeared to intervene after Conor McGregor began pulling on the hair of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) women's strawweight champion Britain Hart over the weekend.
The Notorious, a part-owner of BKFC, was in Marbella in Spain as Franco Tenaglia beat Tony Soto by majority decision to win the lightweight title in the main event.
Austin Trout also successfully defended his welterweight title with a decision victory over Ricardo Franco, while David Mundell stopped Danny Christie to retain the middleweight title. Former world champion boxer Hannah Rankin also made her BKFC debut at the event, defeating Deborah Melhorn.
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However, it was at the after-party where footage went viral of McGregor and Hart dancing, with the Irishman tugging on her hair. McGregor's fiancee quickly inserted herself between the pair and the Dubliner stepped back and laughed.
He then grabbed her hair and the pair briefly spoke before the Irishman gave her a big grin. BKFC fighter Mike Perry branded McGregor's actions "trash behaviour", but Hart has come to his defence.
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"Dude he just loves me as a fighter and little sis and f**** with us – he knows his loyalty- as we all do but super fun and was honoured by his presence," Hart wrote on Instagram. "Look guys – let me set it straight- as stupid as it seems; there is a world that exists where some fighters look at us as sisters and brotherhoods and we mess with each other – this man – has done so much for the sport AS a fighter I couldn’t be luckier – my gun mates and anyone would agree part of the team !!! Ayyyeee"
It comes after McGregor revealed he is finally set to return to the octagon against Dan Hooker in Saudi Arabia on February 1. Hooker was also at the BKFC event and told Bloody Elbow of McGregor: "I've got an opponent early next year that I'm focused on, he's just a busy man.
"From coming over here and seeing all the things that he's got going on, if I had that amount of businesses and that much money I don't think you'd catch me anywhere near a cage for the rest of my days.
"So I can understand. It kind of is what it is, I'm going to fight between January and March and you know me, it doesn't really matter who that is. I always say yes." Hooker is currently on a three-fight win streak and is the number five ranked fighter in the lightweight division.
McGregor and Hooker also spoke in person about the fight while they were at the BKFC event. "We're kindred spirits, as you can say," Hooker told Submission Radio. "We get along quite well. I think we're both very similar.
"There's a lot of similarities there. Yeah, we just spoke in the ring and just. Yeah, like I'm on board. He's on board. We just need to get the UFC on board and we'll get this thing across the line."
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