White: Mayweather will destroy McGregor’s life if he uses MMA
Dana White: “Conor McGregor would be sued beyond belief if he does anything other than hit Floyd Mayweather with his hands to the head and body.”
A number of fans have speculated that if Conor McGregor is losing badly to Floyd Mayweather he might shoot a double and slam Money to sleep; really, any MMA technique would do. Notorious would lose anyway, and could at least strut away with a moral victory of sorts.
One problem with that scenario is that unlike MMA which has fixed show and win purses, usually of equal amount, in boxing the purse is fixed, win or lose. But if you are disqualified, you don’t get paid. Further, McGregor’s contract has explicit significant penalties for McGregor going MMA in the middle of a boxing match. And there’s more.
He would be sued beyond belief if he does anything other than hit Floyd Mayweather with his hands to the head and body, White said during the press tour, as transcribed by Keith Idec for BoxingScene.com. It would be a very bad – that can’t happen. That can’t happen. There’s actually language in the contract that that can’t happen.
If you look at Mayweather, you can include this fight, his last three fights and the amount of money he’s brought in, right, when you go to court any lawsuit is always about damages. And the damages on Mayweather if something like that happened would be massive. That can’t happen.
Forget about the contract. He would just sue him. He would have a lawsuit against him that would be incredibly – I mean, it would destroy Conor’s life and Mayweather would win. Mayweather would win that lawsuit.
It can’t happen. It absolutely cannot happen. Listen, Conor is a bit of a wild man. But he likes money just as much as Floyd does. So if he wants Floyd to have all his money, that’s the way to do it.
McGregor was asked about going MMA in the middle of the fight, and was ambiguous.
We’ll see on the night, he said, adding yet another question to the fight.
And White argues that Conor has a shot without breaking boxing’s rules.
One of the things that has made Floyd Mayweather as great as he is and go on the streak that he’s on, speed kills, said White. Floyd Mayweather has incredible defense and he’s fast. But here’s reality – reality is Floyd Mayweather will be 41 years old [next] year. Conor McGregor is a southpaw. If there’s any kink in that armor, if you wanna look at one thing, is when Floyd goes up against southpaws. McGregor is 29 years old and he hits like a truck. When McGregor hits people, he hurts them. And when he hurts them, he finishes ‘em. In a 12-round fight, is Conor ever gonna hit him once? I believe he will. I believe he’ll hit him more than once, and we’ll see what happens when Floyd gets hit.