En fight som många inte ansett är nödvändig har tyckts se allt mer sannolik ut under den senaste tiden. Det tycktes som att Floyd Mayweather skulle gå in i oktagonen men nu ser det snarare ut som att Conor McGregor vill återvända till boxningsringen för en rematch mot boxningslegenden.
UFC:s VD Dana White har länge hintat om ett samarbete med Mayweather med en match senare under året som mål.
Trots att Mayweather just ska fylla 43 år ses McGregor även denna gång som underdog. Irländaren höll dock längre än väntat vid deras megamatch i augusti år 2017 där han avslutade via TKO först i 10:e ronden.
Mayweather säger dock nu att han endast fightades på skoj vid mötet och att han knappt tränade inför matchen som tog 2:a platsen när det kommer till antal PPV-försäljningar inom boxning.
I en nylig intervju sade Mayweather till REVOLT TV att han försökte få McGregor att se bra ut så att en returmatch skulle kunna bli verklighet:
You know, actually, when I was getting ready for McGregor, for Conor McGregor I didn’t really train. So for the Conor McGregor fight, I ain’t really train. All I did was just push-ups and sit-ups. That’s all I did. Push-ups and sit-ups. Boxed a few times, hit the bag a few times. Training camp was in different places. I would do training camp in Vegas a few days. Sometimes I wouldn’t go to the gym for a week.
I took it serious, but as I said before I wanted to have some fun in the fight. And I wanted to entertain the people. So you know, just lead with that style that I had. It was entertaining, it was fun, so people enjoyed it. So you have to give people a show, so I gave people a show. If I wanted to go out and f**k him up and blaze him right out the gate, I coulda did that. But you know, my thing is if I would have did that, there probably wouldn’t be a part two.
Go back and look at All Access. You didn’t see me training. I was doing a little bit, I would go to the gym two or three days, then don’t go to the gym for four days. But I was in shape, I was in shape. But … I wasn’t in shape like the Arturo Gatti fight. I was in dog shape. Diego Corrales, I was in dog shape. I was running in the mountains.
Mayweather har endast gått en uppvisningsmatch sedan han pensionerade sig från professionell boxning med segern över McGregor.
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