Conor McGregor Credit score: Idris Elba/Mayweather Promotions
A proposed exhibition boxing match between Conor McGregor and Logan Paul, to have taken place in India later this 12 months, is useless.
McGregor, the previous UFC featherweight and light-weight champion, revealed to The Schmo in a current interview that the MMA powerhouse had served as a roadblock to the combat really going down. Calling the bout a “glorified spar,” McGregor said that the promotion merely wasn’t , regardless of each athletes falling below the TKO Group banner.
“It is what it is. The UFC just aren’t into it.” McGregor instructed media persona “The Schmo.” The Irish star had been readily available as a part of the promotion for BKFC KnuckleMania V. “I had, the supply was there on the desk, in writing. Each athletes [Jake and Logan Paul] will say, ‘He’s not combating,’ however each athletes [McGregor and Logan Paul] are below the TKO banner. UFC, WWE each rising up. The inventory value of TKO Holding Floor is thru the roof. New market in India opened up and booming. It was enterprise savvy, and enterprise sense to make the combat occur. Or, ought to I say, the glorified spar occur.
“And in between this waiting period that we find ourselves in before I can get back to the octagon, it made perfect sense on the calendar to go ahead with it. The UFC weren’t into it. I’m not sure, the WWE, what their interest in it was. I just knew the UFC weren’t into it. And what’s his name, Logan, he just kept quiet, didn’t say nothing.”
The UFC has traditionally prevented its athletes from competing exterior the corporate, apart from grappling matches. The exception got here when Conor McGregor confronted Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a professional boxing match in 2017.
