A day after UFC President Dana White denied that Conor McGregor was going to be fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr., Floyd’s father and trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr., confirmed that his son was in talks with an MMA fighter during an on-camera interview.
“He had told me the other day that he’s going to take another fight,” “He told me it’s (against) some kind of MMA fighter.”
When asked if McGregor was the MMA fighter that he was referring to, Mayweather Sr. didn’t hold back and said that Conor was going to get his ass whooped.
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We’d beat the hell out of that man,” “My son can whoop him He’s dead.”
“I’ll tell you this, if it’s not MMA fighting, Conor is going to get the hell beat out of him. I know lil’ Floyd ain’t going for being an MMA fighter, so that means that McConor is going to get the hell beat out of him still.”
I really don’t know exactly when, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to come around pretty soon. Won’t be that long.”
Talk about adding gasoline to the fire.