McGregor: Floyd, get my money, and we can fight

Back in May rumors began to circulate the the greatest boxer of his generation, Floyd Mayweather Jr, was going to box UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

McGregor has a contract with the UFC that precludes engaging in a prizefight without permission. Thus, any fight with Mayweather has to go through UFC president Dana White, and White has said repeatedly, that he has not heard from Mayweather so until he does, there is no way the fight is actually happening.

Plus, White says if he does call, there are some things to discuss.

“If we start negotiating, it starts with punches, kicks and elbows,” explained White. “We can either add or subtract from there, which ever way we go.”

McGregor has a different stipulation.

“Right now I have Floyd running around the Showtime offices gathering my money,” explained McGregor to Damon Martin for FOX Sports. “That’s what he’s doing.

“If you want to fight me, we can fight. If you need a specific rule set to protect you from a true fight, that’s no problem. Just make sure that money is there. As long as that money is there, we can fight under your safety net of rules. But me, I don’t need rules. I am the f***ing rule.”

“I’ve got the boxing community saying I can’t box and then I say, OK, let’s fight. Oh well you can’t kick or elbow or grapple, as long as you can’t do that, we’ll box your ass up — OK, then. Then I’ve got the grappling community saying I can’t grapple, so I say OK, let’s fight. Then the grappling community will be like well you can’t box or kick, as long as you can’t do that, we’ll grapple your ass up. All these people saying I can’t do this and I can’t do that. I say let’s fight and then all of a sudden rules — you need to bring in rules to protect them. I don’t need no rules to protect me. I can fight any way. That’s my thoughts on all that. Like I said, if he comes forward with the bread, with the cash, we can have a knock no problem.”

McGregor further said he was not upset about Mayweather’s insistence that the fight be under boxing rules.

“I don’t really hold it against him,” said the Irishman. “I wouldn’t want to come into my world. How is he going to come into my world? He’s a novice where I come from. He’s a phenomenal boxer, a phenomenal athlete, an intelligent business man, but a novice in true fighting and that’s just simple fact.

“So I don’t blame him for trying to make set rules under the boxing rules and like I said, I’ve got no problem going over there. I would not show up unconfident. I would show up there to kill that man and take that win down 100-percent. Why dominate one world when you could dominate two. We’ll see how that plays out though.”