Leo Santa Cruz game to box Cody Garbrandt

The undisputed best featherweight boxer in the world, four-time world champion in three weight classes Leo Santa Cruz, spoke recently with Jonathan Shrager for The UnderGround. The Spanish language interview covers:
•All things Mayweather vs McGregor, including the event being more of a spectacle than fight,;
•The difficulties of boxing/sparring unconventional fighters;
•The unlikelihood of Conor’s chances to pull off the upset;
•His opinion that Floyd can finish this fight within four rounds if he wants to;
•His desire for the trilogy fight with Northern Irishman Carl Frampton; and,
•Whether he’d fancy competing against Cody Garbrandt.

The final wish meshes perfectly with Garbrandt’s wish to become the Bo Jackson on combat sports, excelling in MMA and boxing.

I want Conor to go in there and do well cause it would be great for fighters like myself who have a boxing background, said Garbrandt to Damon Martin for MMAWeekly.com. I grew up in the trenches; I grew up in the boxing world. To be able to go in there and I want to be the Bo Jackson of MMA.

Let Conor go in there and do his thing and that’s it. He’s the champ, he’s gone out there and done what he’s supposed to do to his opponents besides the Diaz fight, but that was an entertaining fight and that’s what built his brand and his name off those fights. So let him go in there and test himself against the best and I hope that he does well. Because if he goes in there and gets s*** knocked out and beat up, they’re going to say MMA is f***ing bunch of dumb rednecks fighting. We’re fighters in here.

So let him go test the waters and see how he does, but I hope he does well so down the line, it looks like the UFC really likes promoting this fight over some of their own even. It’s entertaining for everybody. It’s the biggest fight to ever happen. Just the spectacle of it. I hope that Dana will let us go in there and dabble in the boxing promotion and start a boxing promotion crossed over with the UFC. Why can’t we fight those boxers?

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