Former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor practically fought boxing star Terence Crawford.
‘The Infamous’ is not any stranger to the world {of professional} boxing. Again in August 2017, Conor McGregor stepped into the ring as a two-weight UFC champion and confronted Floyd Mayweather. Whereas the Irishman was handed a stoppage loss that evening, he impressed many. Since then, McGregor has been linked to a number of different high-profile boxers.
Nicely, a kind of boxers is four-division champion Terence Crawford. Talking on a current Duelbits livestream, Conor McGregor revealed that the 2 have been beforehand in talks to struggle. In accordance with the Irishman, the deal was for 2 fights, one within the cage and one within the boxing ring. Whereas ‘Bud’ is a boxer, he was reportedly a stable high school wrestler as effectively.
Sadly, talks between Conor McGregor and Terence Crawford didn’t go far. In accordance with ‘The Infamous’, the boxer didn’t actually have any curiosity in entering into the cage. Whereas Crawford did wrestle beforehand, he’s additionally admitted to not being very within the UFC.
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Conor McGregor says there was talks a couple of two-fight deal between him and Terence Crawford, one MMA struggle and one boxing struggle 👀🥊
“[Crawford said] ‘I don’t fancy taking a kick off Conor McGregor’.”
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Former UFC champion Conor McGregor opens up on talks with boxing star Terence Crawford
“Crawford may be very slick, he additionally has a wrestling background pedigree.” Conor McGregor said on the stay stream earlier as we speak. “You understand they’re at all times speaking to me about bouts. I’ve already boxed a boxer, and the very best boxer in MMA is me. You understand what I imply? I generate essentially the most [power]. We have been speaking forwards and backwards a couple of two-fight deal.”
He continued, “He rings up Crawford in entrance of me the day after the fights. I get on the telephone and say ‘Crawford, they’re right here speaking about you and me [fighting]. Two-fight deal, MMA first, boxing second. I do know you’ve an intensive wrestling background, and balls the scale of a Bengal tiger. They’re asking for a struggle, it’ll be a whole lot of thousands and thousands on the road. What’s up?’”
“He goes, ‘I don’t fancy taking a kick off Conor McGregor’, that’s what he stated. It’s a must to respect that.”
What do you make of those feedback from the previous UFC champion? Would you watch Conor McGregor vs. Terence Crawford?
