Mayweather isn’t entertaining the idea of fighting Conor McGregor at all.
McGregor made the headlines during the week for a bold claim he made to Esquire. The UFC superstar told the magazine that if he were to get involved in a fight with dominant boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, he would not only beat him, he’d make it look easy.
“I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas. If you can box, what happens if I grab hold of your legs?”
“If you put me face-to-face with Floyd Mayweather—pound-for-pound boxing’s best—if I fought Floyd, I would kill him in less than thirty seconds. It would take me less than thirty seconds to wrap around him like a boa constrictor and strangle him.”
While it wasn’t a very controversial statement, given Mayweather’s lack of training in jiu-jitsu, wrestling, kick-boxing and other forms of martial arts, McGregor certainly said it to spark a reaction out of the champ.
Well, it appears to have worked… sort of, as Mayweather has issued his official response to the Notorious to entertainment site TMZ.
“I don’t take that dude seriously. He’s just trying to get himself some publicity.”
It’s clear from that statement that Mayweather wants no part in the boxer vs mixed martial artist debate.
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