Coach: GSP vs. McGregor would be bigger than MayMac
Firas Zahabi: “I think it would be a bigger fight than Mayweather-McGregor. I think it would be the biggest fight in history…”
Welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre’s coach Firas Zahabi spoke recently with FightHub TV and advocated for a fight between GSP and soon to be stripped lightweight champ Conor McGregor.
Two huge names, said Zahabi, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. I would love the fight to happen. I don’t think it’s gonna happen. I think the size difference and Conor’s gotta defend the belt sooner or later. They can’t fight for a middleweight title, that would be considered crazy.
I think it would just be a megafight that the fans want to see. It would just be a super-megafight that everybody in the world would want to see. I think it would be a bigger fight than Mayweather-McGregor. I think it would be the biggest fight in history and everybody would for sure want to see it. I don’t make the fights, but if I did, that would be one I’d make.
Listen, Georges is fully aware of the karate stuff and Taekwondo ranges and the distances McGregor uses. He grew up in that. McGregor’s very good at keeping that distance and when you cross the distance, he punches you. Georges understands that game so well plus Georges is much more schooled in wrestling and jiu-jitsu, so I’ve got to put it all on Georges side.
McGregor has that deadly, accurate left, I’ll give him that. He has a better cross than Georges, definitely, but Georges is too smart, too intelligent, too calculated. It’s highly unlikely he will get hit with it. Not impossible, just highly unlikely.
GSP has rejected a potential fight with retired ONE welterweight champion Ben Askren, arguing that no one knows who ‘Funky’ is. No one doesn’t know who McGregor is, so that is clearly the fight to make.