They don’t think like he thinks, they don’t move like he moves, they don’t talk like he talks, but they can look like Conor McGregor looks… kind of.
The young fellas the length and breadth of the country have been going about jacking Conor McGregor’s swag all wrong. It turns out you need more than a top-knot, beard and shades to convince people you’re the UFC superstar.
You’ll need more than a top-knot, beard and shades to convince people you’re the UFC superstar. It turns out the missing ingredients are the physique of a bodybuilder and some temporary tattoos. Who’da thunk it?
That’s the tactic Kazakh bodybuilder Islam Badurgov used to dupe the masses in Los Angeles into thinking he was ‘the Notorious’.
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Equipped with a stick-on-beard, sunglasses, fake tatts that replicated that of the acerbic-tongued Dubliner and an entourage, Badurgov fooled a whole heap of people he encountered on the streets.
There were a couple of close calls though when the jig was almost up. Although he did his best to remain silent, there were occasions when his accent was almost heard.
He almost let the cat out of the bag in front of a group of people when his glasses slip as he dismounting from a set of horizontal bars, as you can see from the video embedded below.
