Conor McGregor Says History Will Judge Mayweather If He Doesn’t Follow Through On A UFC Fight

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Floyd Mayweather has been causing waves on social media lately, sharing footage of himself dancing around in an MMA cage. While the whole thing may just be a promotional stunt to push a sportsbook sponsor, it’s led to a lot of people questioning if a UFC fight between Mayweather and Conor McGregor really is all that unlikely. While it’s up there with eating Tide pods as far as healthy decisions go, you can’t deny it would be lucrative. Floyd loves money, and a fight in the UFC would undoubtedly shatter all PPV records and earn him upwards of half a billion dollars.

Conor McGregor was in New York being honored by the Children Medical Research Foundation for his substantial contributions to the Our Ladies Children’s Hospital in his hometown of Crumlin. On his way into the event he shared some thoughts on Mayweather’s recent hijinx in an interview with Adam Glyn.

“I’d do as I please against him,” he said when asked how a Mayweather UFC fight would go. “If he does do it – I know he’s flirting with it – I would have respect for him. I think it would get him his earned respect, if he were to step in.”

As for how likely a fight was to materialize out of the hype?

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“He’s engaging, we’re engaging,” McGregor said coyly. “I’m currently in negotiations to face … my next opponent. We have many options, there’s the current interim lightweight champion, there’s an undefeated Dagestani, maybe a big Russian event. There’s the Diaz trilogy. Obviously, the Mayweather fight is there. There’s many options, so … we’re just at the table.”

But McGregor made it clear that Mayweather might be damaging his reputation more than he realizes by teasing a UFC fight and not actually going through with it.

“If it is [just hype], it will follow him for the rest of his days that he did not do it,” he finished. “I said that I’d do it and I stepped up and I done it. It’s his turn now.”

(via Adam Glyn)

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