"I think I had him so rattled," joked Scott Moore, aka Scomo, when speaking to Daily Star Sport. "He was saying all these things about me because he was that rattled!"
Moore, who is a battle rapper, had been engaged in a war of words on social media with UFC royalty Conor McGregor. The ex-UFC star has made no secret of his desire to run for Irish presidency in recent weeks – and Moore had taken issue with some of his suggestions.
He sent out a tweet to McGregor, and to his shock, the Notorious One replied. "I'm a Twitter user, if there's someone on my mind, or if there's someone I see, and I have something to say about it, I'll say it!
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However, Moore admitted he was shocked when McGregor responded: "You know, if you tweet about a celebrity, you don't expect them to respond!" McGregor had fired back with personal insults – and Moore saw the perfect opportunity to engage in a battle rap with the star.
In now deleted tweets seen by Daily Star Sport, McGregor takes aim at Moore's skin. The battle rapper admitted he suffers from a mental health condition that causes him to pick at his skin.
“He insulted my skin, calling me scabby or whatever. And he insulted me like, because I had battle rapper in the bio, like, I do rap battles – I'm a battle rapper. That’s an interest of mine." The pair started to exchange verses – before McGregor abruptly stopped, uploading a video of him speaking to the camera.
Moore added: "It ended up getting to the point where he was insulting me then, but he wasn't rhyming. He wasn't rapping, he was just insulting me." Moore said there's a difference between a celebrity doing that on social media and a casual citizen.
The video was swiftly deleted by McGregor, but Moore said the insults might have crossed a line: "I have a mental health condition, which means I have compulsion to pick at my skin. I can't help that, like, I have skin picking disorder, like it is a form of self harm.
"I think if you're gonna say like that, you should be able to stand over what you say… And it's not stand over what he's saying, it’s that he is deleting tweets, he's blocking me."
McGregor had challenged Moore to a fight, with Moore asking him to send his location. The ex-UFC champion had another idea, his front garden – but he then blocked the battle rapper.
Instead, Moore is now looking to face McGregor on stage so the pair can have a battle rap.
“I'm a battle rapper. So, like, I'm very steeped in the art of trash talk, you know, rhyming trash talk, but trash talk nonetheless, I'm very good at insulting people in a very artful way.
“In a way that has a very much the craft Conor McGregor is known for, he’s one of the top so called trash talkers in the MMA, but whenever he speaks with an actual trash talker, somebody that really does this, he blocks them!"
Moore also looks to use his platform for change, and he hit back at the ableist slurs used by McGregor in one of his Twitter videos. He added: "I'm autistic, and I've used battle rap to stick up for disabled people and sort of speak out against ableism."
However, Moore was keen to convey he didn't want to play the victim, he wants to face McGregor on stage for all of his fans to see.
"This isn't about me saying, ‘Oh, Conor McGregor has insulted me’, it’s not about saying, 'Oh, you can't insult me, I'm autistic’. It's about saying that he's insulted me, for my skin, and if he wants to insult me for my skin, why won't he face me? Like to battle me? You know, why?”
Moore is keen to face on stage and on camera for the world to see – "that offer still stands," he concluded.
Daily Star Sport have contacted Conor McGregor's representatives for comment.You can view their war of words on Twitter here
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