Tyron Woodley does believe that Conor McGregor will get his PPV record-smashing superfight against Floyd Mayweather, but not for the purse he’s asking for.
Mayweather rekindled the buzz for a potential superfight against McGregor on Wednesday by explaining to ESPN’s First Take that he was willing to offer McGregor a guaranteed $15 million for the bout.
It was by no coincidence that a few hours later, McGregor broke out the big guns on Twitter to fire back at the boxing great. He compared himself to comparing himself to the former NBA star Mayweather’s ex-partner was accused of cheating on Money with, a post which brilliantly doubled as an advertisement for his Emoji app.
Call me C.J Watson! https://t.co/9m2Omw4Wca pic.twitter.com/GZMzxxTsbb
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) January 11, 2017
UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley has given his two cents on the latest developments in the neverending McGregor-Mayweather story to TMZ. Woodley, who’s booked a rematch against Stephen Thompson for the main event of UFC 209, believes that the crossover spectacle will happen, but McGregor won’t receive his asking price of $100 million.
“I think this fight’s going to happen. I think Conor’s underestimating the PPV. I think it’s going to be more than $15 million. He’s not going to get $100 million, you can guarantee that.”
“I think what he should really take into consideration that he might get $15/20 million for the fight, another $30-40 million on the back end. The endorsements for this would be unreal and ungodly. I do think the fight’s going to happen.”
He believes Mayweather is unwilling to meet McGregor’s demands because he feels the Notorious is undeserving of such a purse, because he hasn’t come anywhere close to receiving a payday of that magnitude in his own discipline. However, if Woodley received the same offer, he admitted he’d bite the hand off Mayweather to accept it.
“I do think it’s a personal issue. Floyd Mayweather’s like, ‘I’m the money guy. I’m the first one to start making these 10s and 100 million dollar paydays. You haven’t done that yet, so you don’t deserve it yet.'”
“Shit! Number one, I would be the Grateful One and I would take the $15 million and I would take the $5 million, five percent of PPV and a couple of watches in the back to get the job done.”
