Det har under en tid ryktats om att boxningsmästaren Floyd Mayweather kommer att göra debut i MMA i UFC, vilket då skulle innebära en eventuell match mot Conor McGregor i oktogonen. Mayweather har vid flera tillfällen hintat om detta via sociala medier med bilder och videor på honom i en MMA-bur och med MMA-handskar.
Billion Dollar Man pic.twitter.com/8Vv4y1QpFK
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) February 3, 2018
Certified Killa vs Certified Bitch pic.twitter.com/N0GcWrycEL
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) February 11, 2018
Come at the king, you best not miss… pic.twitter.com/uHx4SJngHx
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) February 1, 2018
Welterviktsmästaren Tyron Woodley hävdar nu att han faktiskt tränar Mayweather i MMA för en debut i UFC.
Via TMZ:
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Floyd Mayweather is interested in taking a mixed martial art bout, maybe a few of them, so who better than The Chosen One to teach him the ropes on how we get off the ropes and get in the cage. I saw him at the Jordan party during the All-Star weekend, we started chatting about training MMA and we decided let’s connect, let’s hook up in Vegas and do some training. Get him ready for MMA. Y’all think it’s a joke but think about this: Floyd Mayweather’s one of the best strikers of all times. How many guys in the UFC that can’t wrestle, and can’t grapple and they consider themselves a stand-up fighter? If they have to stand across from one of the greatest strikers ever, they’re gonna be in a world of smoke.
We’re already getting it set-up. First thing we’ll work on is kicks. Blocking the kicks. There is no point in him trying to learn how to kick. Defending kicks, identifying when a body is about to throw a kick. No one can just suddenly, sneaky throw a kick besides like an [Edson] Barboza or Jose Aldo. […] Secondly, obviously defending takedowns. If he’s able to evade punches in a fraction of a second, make people look stupid and miss a million times, then he can learn wrestling defense. […] Then obviously he’ll decide which fight he wants to take, then we’ll gameplan out that.
