Conor McGregor and Francesco Facchinetti, Benji’s testimony

“Conor McGregor punched Francesco Facchinetti for no reason, sent him flying across the room.” Benjamin Mascolo was a direct witness of Conor McGregor’s attack on Francesco Facchinetti. The actor was in Rome and attended the Rome Film Fest for the film Time is Up starring with his wife Bella Thorne. On the night between Saturday and Sunday, Mascolo attended the party in a hotel in the capital where McGregor is staying. “We arrived around 1, they made us wait in a meeting room. Conor arrived, for 2 hours we talked in friendly tones. Around 3 – Benji says – we decided to leave with my wife, since we should have return to Milan in the morning. Conor insisted that we stay, he wanted to keep partying. Francesco then said ‘if you want to go, no problem. We’ll stay.’ Suddenly, for no reason, McGregor hit Francesco with a real punch: he broke his lip, Francesco was bleeding. He flew to the other side of the room, I don’t know how he managed to stay standing. The bodyguards and friends blocked McGregor, they were 5-6. We, escorted by 2 other guards, went out through a side door of the hotel “. “I have always been a fan of his, he made me approach the UFC, I went to see him in Las Vegas. I had a huge esteem for the athlete, for the person I had very high expectations that were destroyed. This person could give a punch me, my wife, my brother. It was shocking, I am scandalized. I am on Francesco’s side, I told him it was his duty to denounce to prevent such a thing from happening again. If you have to go to court, I’ll go to court, “he says again.