White: If McGregor wins he’s the biggest athlete on Earth
Dana White: “If Conor does knock Floyd Mayweather out, he is the biggest athlete on earth.”
MayGegor was floated by Team Mayweather in April, April of 2016. Now it has a date – August 26, 2017.
UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor is the biggest pay per view television draw in mixed martial arts history. Mayweather is the biggest draw in boxing history, or any history. The fight will be huge. ‘Notorious’ has no chance of winning and nothing to lose, and win, lose, or draw, he will make over 50 million dollars. No matter what happens, it’s the greatest win of his career.
And if, somehow, McGregor wins, UFC president Dana White thinks with good reason that he will be the biggest sports star on Earth.
If you look at this thing and you look at how big this fight is and you look at how big these athletes are that are involved in this fight, if Conor does knock Floyd Mayweather out, he is the biggest athlete on earth, said White as transcribed byMike Bohn for MMAjunkie. He’s the biggest athlete [on Earth], on other planets – he’s the biggest athlete. It’s pretty crazy.
White has long held McGregor in the highest esteem, for being willing to take on any fight and any fighter. Now Mayweather too joins White’s pantheon of balls.
I always say this about Conor, and now you can say it about Floyd, too, said White. When you go out and you put everything on line – I’ve said this about Floyd Mayweather for years. He loves money, loves money, but that record is actually I think more important to him than money. For him to go out and risk that 49-0 against a guy like Conor, props to both guys for making the fight.