An English tourist has challenged Irish professional mixed martial artist and boxer Conor McGregor to a Miami-Dade Circuit Court battle, filing a lawsuit Thursday over an incident at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

Ahmed Abdirzak was leaving LIV Nightclub at the luxury hotel in the early hours Monday when he saw McGregor approaching and tried to snap a picture. But McGregor, who wasn’t in the mood for a close-up, grabbed the fan’s arm with one hand and slapped his smartphone into the air with the other before stomping on it, according to the lawsuit.

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