Floyd Mayweather posted yet another MMA related teaser on his social media over the weekend.
In the picture Floyd is photoshopped into a UFC Octagon while wearing MMA gloves with the caption ‘Billion Dollar Man.’
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The juiciest rumour is that Mayweather is looking to sign a billion dollar deal with the leading mixed martial arts organisation.
However, despite Floyd’s telling videos, promoter Eddie Hearn is not buying what ‘Money’ is selling.
“If Floyd Mayweather goes into the UFC ring, you may never see him again. He would get absolutely crushed. One of the greatest fighters of all time but I’m guessing he’s just playing. He is too smart for that. He is too smart to get into the Octagon,” said Hearn in an interview with Fight Hype.
World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua had a much upfront reaction.
“I don’t really care about none of that sh*t. I’m not interested in all that sh*t. I don’t really care. I wanna focus on my own sh*t,” commented Joshua to Fight Hype.
Golden Boy Promotions’ Oscar De La Hoya thinks it could be another ploy by Mayweather to take away attention from Golden Boy’s massive rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez.
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“Of course, but it’s fine. Our fight is gonna do 3 million homes, so we’re good. I mean Floyd is a, you know him and his attention. He can’t let anyone have attention so he does this. He’ll never fight in the UFC,” said De La Hoya to TMZ.
Former UFC middleweight Michael Bisping has had his own fair share of fighting words against a boxer when he and Tony Bellew expressed interest in fighting each other in the Octagon last year. Bisping explained in detail what would happen to Mayweather should he ever fight McGregor in a cage.
“Conor McGregor in an MMA fight will f—— destroy Floyd Mayweather like he’s never seen,” said the studio analyst for Fox Sports. You fight a boxer you, take him down. He could take him down pretty f—— easy. You take him down, you pass guard, and you elbow the f— out of his face in about 35 seconds,” said Bisping in his Believe You Me podcast.
McGregor didn’t amaze with his boxing skill back in August but in his own sport of MMA, the Irishman is known as a dangerous striker with a devastating arsenal of kicks and punches.
“He could use push kicks to keep him away and he could set up high kicks. McGregor has a great kicking game – we’ve seen them all a thousand times, very fast, very agile – a lot of spinning kicks, he could just kick him into oblivion,” Bisping continued.
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“Everybody has their price and apparently there was rumours floating round that a billion dollars was the price for a few fights in the UFC and a f—— billion dollars goes a long way. It would certainly be a record-breaking pay-per-view, Who wouldn’t watch it? I’d watch it, of course I would!” stated Bisping.
If it’s another blockbuster pay-per-view they are after, Mayweather-McGregor 2 in a steel cage might do the trick.
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