Manager: McGregor will ‘definitely’ return to the Octagon
Conor McGregor’s manager: “He has a lot more that he wants to accomplish athletically and a businessman. He definitely want to fight in MMA again.”
A number of prominent figures in the MMA community have wondered whether UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor will ever return to the Octagon after making somewhere between 50 and 100 million dollars boxing Floyd Mayweather. However, during a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, McGregor’s agent Audie Attar said definitively that he will.
Conor is a very ambitious young man. And those are two key words, young and ambitious, said Attar, as transcribed by Adam Guillen Jr. for MMA Mania. He has a lot more that he wants to accomplish athletically and a businessman. He definitely want to fight in MMA again. If all goes well and he feels good, he could fight at the end of the year. There are no guarantees, but it’s definitely in his plans to come back and compete again in the UFC.”
MayGregor has been criticized as a cynical money grab with an outcome written in stone, the equivalent of Tom Brady entering the World Series as a pitcher, with the idea that he is skilled at throwing things. Attar responded.
Hi haters, he laughed. It’s the same people that said it wasn’t going to happen, so you can’t pay attention to all of that negativity. If you paid attention to all the people that told you that you can’t, then you are not going to be living out your dream. My thing to them is, ‘Tune in and watch and we will see.’ That’s a mistake. This is a young man that knows how to throw them hands and has all the skills he needs to compete at the highest level. On August 26, I’m confident he will go out there and shock the world.
Attar predicted a win by KO. That is completely bonkers, but no more or less bonkers than McGregor defeating arguably the best pound for pound fighter in MMA in 13 seconds.
MayGregor will be the highest pay any two athletes received for a single event in world histor.
McGregor and Mayweather’s compensation. During a April appearance on The Herd, UFC president Dana White offered estimates.
“Depends on how much the fight sells,” said White. “If the fight sells as well as I think it can, Floyd makes a little north of $100 [million] and Conor makes $75 [million].”
Attar described White’s comments as “fair.”
Conor is well taken care of, he said.
Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor will take place on August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.