It’s a fight nobody claims to want to see yet everybody is talking about. Despite everything, we seem to be edging closer to seeing Floyd Mayweather and Conor Mcgregor fight under MMA rules.
Speaking with TheMacLife, Mcgergor’s coach John Kavanagh has claimed that things are begining to come together.
“I’m kind of reminded of early last year when I was asked about the boxing fight,” Kavanagh said. “And I was doubtful as anybody, and I actually went as far as to stupidly tweet that I’ll do the Irish river dance naked if Floyd steps in the Octagon. Now, I’m going to be honest, I’m practicing Irish dancing, and I’m getting nervous about that.
“In all seriousness, it’s a crazy world we live in. The fight that could never happen, happened. And now this is a fight that can never happen, and it seems to be getting. I don’t know, there seems to be something forming there. I would absolutely love it.”
“Now, let’s be realistic here. If the fight was to happen, I would nearly be saying to Conor and pushing Conor to say, ‘Let’s book that two or three weeks before a real one’, because we can go in and — I’d almost insist that in that fight Conor shoots a double leg early — because I’d be almost annoyed if he went in there and put him away quickly with MMA striking. We need to see jiu-jitsu in that fight. He needs to be in the mount slapping [him] about a little bit. So it would be, I think, such a straight, easy fight that we could train realistically for it and then do a competitive MMA fight on the backend of it.
“So I think it’s one of those ones we could squeeze in getting ready for a fight. I know that probably comes across a certain way, but I can only say what I’m thinking, I can only say what I feel … if that was to happen, it’s not the type of fight that Conor’s gonna have to do a real specific 12 weeks for, and then take three or four months off afterwards, and completely get ready for another one.”
Is this a fight you would watch? Does anybody in the MMA community think this would be anything other than a high profile circus act? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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I think I’ll save my £20 lads, thanks all the same.
Mmiv Elchapo Leyenda
And after he’s choked out in 13 seconds, mayweathers line will be I made XXX millions for 13 seconds work?
The touch butt buddies looking to fondle eachother again. ? those two clowns and the sorry ass circus those pieces of shit try to promote.
Who give a fuck have a proper fight pussys
I think Kavangh is talking about his hard on for Conor.
Fake fucking news
excellent, another circus, clown fight ????????????????
Tan rápido acaban su plata ya quieren volver a pelear para gastar en huevadas
who else fkin thinks all a staged fight just to make money?
That why kahbib is fighting Tony conor FIGHTS Floyd then FIGHTS winner of kahbib fight THEN FIGHTS Nate for trilogy title fight
They over played their hands, we all know it’s about them making money. Connor needs to defend his belts or vacate them.
Let’s see who falls for this again. Think Connor needs to defend his belt or legacy gone.
Not really, he’ll always be the only duel division “champ” that never so much as entertained the idea of defending.