Conor McGregor warned he crossed the line with "disturbing" tweet to Khabib

Khabib Nurmagomedov 's teammate Daniel Cormier doesn't understand how people can support Conor McGregor following his disturbing tweet about Khabib's father.

McGregor has faced heavy scrutiny this week after seemingly mocking the death of Adulmanap Nurmagomedov in a now-deleted tweet.

Adulmanap passed away last July after a long battle with coronavirus. Khabib has since retired from professional competition after promising his mother that he would never fight again due to his father's death.

After Khabib congratulated Dustin Poirier on his recent win over McGregor, stating: "Good always defeats evil", the Irishman tweeted: "Covid is good and father is evil?"

Cormier condemned McGregor's actions on his ESPN show with co-host Ryan Clark.

"I get shock value and I get trying to get people to talk but way too far. To the point that I immediately called Khabib last night and said, ‘Are you ok?’" Cormier said.

"Asking him if he’s ok after having to see that, especially with no ability to do anything about it again. He (Khabib) spoke to my kids at my wrestling program the other day and said he was never happier than when he got to fight McGregor on the day.

"Because for so long, he wanted to get his hands on Conor and beat Conor up. Well, he can’t do that no more cause he’s not a prizefighter anymore. So now he just has to kind of swallow that. Way too far."

McGregor was among the names to pay respect to Abdulmanap following his passing. He would later delete the tweet in which he paid homage to a "dedicated supporter of the sport".

Earlier this year, McGregor was cordial with Poirier before their rematch at UFC 257. Things changed for their trilogy fight earlier this month, with McGregor taking shots at Poirier's family before and after the event.

Cormier thinks McGregor's involvement of family in the trash talk of his opponents is a step too far.

"Honestly, when Conor does stuff like that, it’s hard to understand how there’s still this mass amount of people that support that type of behaviour.

"It didn’t seem to work against Poirier. I feel like from him talking about Dustin’s wife to now Khabib’s father, he is just taking it way too far.

“You know what’s most disturbing? This wasn’t done the day after the fight or the same night of the fight. This was done weeks after the fight, so it feels like it was thought of and it was thought through for Conor to tweet something like that."

The former UFC light heavyweight and heavyweight champion thinks there is a deeper message behind McGregor's tweets. He thinks the Irishman, who topped the Forbes list of highest-paid athletes this year, is crying for help in his tweets.

“(He) absolutely crossed the line. I think when stuff like that is being said, it’s a cry for help," he continued.

"Conor has all the money in the world, he has all the fame, but now when you start to dig at that level, it’s like somebody needs to get to McGregor and help him to start to kind of re-shift his mind and his focus and get him back to a better place. It’s unfortunate.”

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