Conor McGregor fan gets sweet revenge after fighter crops her out of selfie
Never meet your heroes, for they might crop you out of selfies.
One Conor McGregor fan learned this the hard way -- but she took the slight in stride to get some sweet revenge and give our story a funny ending.
Here's McGregor -- an Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar who beat Eddie Alvarez for the sport's lightweight championship this weekend -- in a recent Instagram post.
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He's showing off his "Gucci mustard" turtleneck there, but ... wait. That photo is kind of oddly cropped, right?
Right, indeed.
As she later proved via Twitter, a young McGregor fan named Erin Safran and her brother had previously snapped the photo in question.
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Cold-blooded, Conor! But Safran played it well by giving the fighter a taste of his own medicine on her Instagram page. She even quoted McGregor for good measure.
We score this bout a TKO in favor of Safran -- on behalf of cropped-out people worldwide.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
