Conor McGregor continues to tease his subsequent transfer as a boxing match towards Logan Paul in India however one UFC Corridor of Famer has a tough time believing any of that’s true.
After addressing rumors about his return to the UFC, McGregor blindsided the entire world when he revealed he was in negotiations for a fight against Paul with the Ambani household — led by Mukesh Ambani, a billionaire who’s the richest individual in Asia — footing the invoice. Experiences then started surfacing that McGregor was taking a look at a possible $250 million payday for the combat however Sonnen doesn’t purchase a single phrase of it.
“He’s claiming that he’s going to get $250 million to go field Logan Paul in India for a billionaire investor who desires to deliver consideration and tourism to India,” Chael Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“You’ve bought to know Conor shouldn’t be boxing [Logan] Paul. There’s not a billionaire in India seeking to deliver folks over and alter tourism. That’s one thing completely achieved by a authorities and that authorities has achieved it in a single place and that’s [Saudi Arabia] within the Center East. Third, there is no such thing as a test for $250 million. He sort of went proper down a listing of joking. He’s kidding. You’re not alleged to consider any of that to be true.”
In the case of growing tourism, Sonnen makes a good level when contemplating all of the methods Turki Alalshikh — a member of Saudi Arabia’s royal courtroom and the chairman of the Basic Leisure Authority — has spent tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to deliver a few of the largest boxing matches to his residence nation over the previous couple of years.
That mentioned, Ambani is a famous sports activities fan because the proprietor of the Mumbai Indians, an Indian Premier League cricket group, and he’s additionally the founding father of the India Tremendous League, a soccer league in India.
Regardless, Sonnen simply doesn’t purchase that Ambani is placing up that amount of cash to deliver McGregor and Paul to India for a combat that doesn’t actually do a lot for his notoriety or backside line financially.
“One factor a few billionaire that’s prepared to spend that cash for regardless of the purpose, is he is without doubt one of the those that don’t like [being unknown],” Sonnen defined. “And I’ll inform you this, if you’re actually wealthy however you don’t have fame, that bothers them. The one factor worse is to be actually well-known and to not be wealthy.
“So if there was any person handing out $250 million checks, he’s not going to an Irishman beneath contract with the UFC, an American beneath contract with the WWE, deliver them to India and stroll round generally known as ‘wealthy India dude.’ He’s going to provide you his title each probability that he has. That’s the commodity he’s getting in alternate for the ridiculous sums of cash.”
So far as the fighters being beneath contract, Paul isn’t as restricted as McGregor as a result of he isn’t unique to WWE exterior {of professional} wrestling however the UFC positively maintains extra management over the previous two-division champion in relation to the place or who he’s allowed to combat.
It’s simply one other impediment that has Sonnen shutting down any hope that McGregor really finally ends up dealing with Paul in a boxing match in 2025.
“There’s no fact,” Sonnen mentioned. “There’s no India new boxing league. There’s no Conor and Paul. There’s no $250 million. There was no a part of the story that was true.”
