McGregor: I would kill Mayweather in less than 30 seconds
Conor McGregor: “If you put me face-to-face with Floyd Mayweather—pound-for-pound boxing’s best—if I fought Floyd, I would kill him in less than thirty seconds.”
If it’s one thing Conor McGregor isn’t lacking, it’s confidence. The Irish fighter is one of the UFC’s fastest rising stars and will next fight for the featherweight title.
McGregor recently sat down with Esquire magazine for a long interview and profile and when asked about fighting Floyd Mayweather, responded as you would expect:
Whatever reason McGregor’s punches are different, they have made him his sport’s newest darling, the culmination of a two-year rise from obscurity to headliner to crossover star. He will fight Brazilian champion Jose Aldo for the UFC’s featherweight belt in July, and White believes it will be his organization’s biggest fight of the year, “a global event,” in large part because of McGregor’s ability to seem more giant than he is.
But the twenty-six-year-old McGregor doesn’t want to be regarded as peerless in only a single facet of his occupation—as just a puncher. “I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist,” he says. “I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas. If you can box, what happens if I grab hold of your legs? If you put me face-to-face with Floyd Mayweather—pound-for-pound boxing’s best—if I fought Floyd, I would kill him in less than thirty seconds. It would take me less than thirty seconds to wrap around him like a boa constrictor and strangle him.”