Conor McGregor expressed contrition in his first public statement since video of the MMA fighter punching a man in a pub went viral last week.

“I was in the wrong,” he told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Thursday. “I must come here before you and take accountability and take responsibility. I owe it to the people that have been supporting me.”

McGregor is seen on video, first obtained by TMZ, punching an older man who had turned down the star pugilist’s brand of whiskey. Given the opportunity to explain his side of the incident, he instead offered regret.

“In reality, it doesn’t matter what happened there, I was in the wrong,” McGregor said in the “SportsCenter” interview. “That man deserved to enjoy his time in the pub without having it to end the way it did.

“Although, five months ago it was, I tried to make amends. I made amends back then. That does not even matter. … That’s not who I am, that’s not the reason I got into martial arts or studying combat sport. The reason was to defend against that type of scenario.”

It was the latest act of outside-the-ring violence for McGregor, who was sentenced to community service for throwing a steel dolly through a bus window at Barclays Center in April of 2018 and was arrested for smashing a fan’s cellphone in March of this year.

UFC rival Khabib Nurmagomedov and boss Dana White seemed befuddled by the fighter’s actions, with Nurmagomedov saying McGregor deserved jail time for the pub punch and that McGregor “lose his mind.”

McGregor, who has not fought since a UFC 229 loss to Nurmagomedov in October of 2018, is prepared to reap what he’s sown.

“I have been continually making steps to be better and do better, to see it,” he said of the bar video, “it’s a dagger in my heart as a young martial artist. I’m here to own up to that and move on and carry on and face what’s coming with it.”