Since May 6, 2016, MMA champion Conor McGregor and the greatest boxer of his generation Floyd Mayweather Jr have been angling for a boxing match. Neither can lose.
McGregor would make tens of millions of dollars and lose, but it’s not his sport. LeBron James would beat him in a game of one on one, too. And Floyd Mayweather is 49-0, tied with Rocky Marciano. Getting to 50-0 is jinxed, but not so jinxed Mayweather loses. He’d make tens of millions too.
Manny Pacquiao too liked his chances vs. McGregor.
If McGregor will fight me in boxing, why not?” Pacman was quoted as saying by a spokesman. “But not in MMA. MMA is much different than boxing. The fight can be at the 140-pound weight division. My normal weight when I’m not on training is just 141 or 142 pounds.”
Promoter Bob Arum, fresh off his role as Slimer in the remake of Ghostbusters, wants to help. Slimer said the president of his firm, Todd DuBoef, was close personal friends with UFC chief operating officer Lawrence Epstein, and would talk to him about a potential McGregor vs. Pacquiao fight.
UFC president Dana White was not impressed.
Listen, I love Manny Pacquiao, said White to Kevin Iole for Yahoo! Sports. But I don’t love Bob Arum. You can tell Arum to save his money and not make any calls over here because we aren’t doing business with him.
Arum has a long and undistinguished record of disparaging MMA, arguing that the sport is junk, the fans are skinheads, and the fighters have got to be homosexual, among a dumpster of other insults.
Does anyone give a s*** about Bob Arum or what he thinks? asked White last summer. I didn’t know he was still alive!!?
