Conor McGregor says Floyd Mayweather Jr. reneged on a verbal agreement to meet in an MMA fight.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani for ESPN, McGregor says a May/Mac rematch in the Octagon is now off the cards. “It was supposed to be me boxing then we do a mixed martial arts bout. That’s what was said and it came out of his mouth as well. It was not written, but it was a verbal agreement. Obviously that’s not going to happen, and I’m not going to push him on that, either.”
Despite accepting an MMA fight is off the cards, McGregor says he’s open to a boxing rematch. “I’d like to rematch Floyd. I think we should rematch Floyd. I mean, he’s flirting with it, and they want all this. And he can go and pick someone else. It’s not gonna be the same. It’s not. I’ve done phenomenal in that bout.”
“I know I’d beat Floyd, I’d beat Floyd if we rematched… I would like to box him. I think that would be a good rematch.”
However he’s not waiting around for Mayweather to agree to a fight, instead teasing that he’s in talks with Manny Pacquiao, the only eight-division world champion boxing history. Pacquiao’s accolades include twelve major world titles, lineal championship titles in five different weight classes, and he was named “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and World Boxing Organization (WBO).
“We’re actually close to signing Manny. There’s been talks about the Manny fight as well. There was an offer made on that, yeah… Not yet. Not yet.”
