Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor and boxing sensation and champion Terence Crawford seem to have been provided a two-fight deal that may have seen the celebrities compete towards one another in MMA and boxing.
In separate interviews, Crawford and McGregor revealed that Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Normal Leisure Authority, had provided them a two-fight settlement, with one in boxing and the opposite in MMA.
“[I told Crawford] They’re asking for a struggle,” McGregor mentioned. “It’s going to be a whole lot of hundreds of thousands on the road. What’s up? He mentioned, ‘I don’t wish to take a kick.’ You bought to respect that.”
Whereas McGregor has had crossover expertise in boxing, Crawford has by no means competed in MMA.
“They provided me the struggle,” the four-division champion mentioned in an interview with Bernie Tha Boxer. “Me and Conor bought on the telephone and began politicking to try to determine one thing out. Man, I’m not getting in no f—ing Octagon with you so that you might be kicking and elbowing me!”
The undefeated Crawford, 37, is arguably the perfect pound-for-pound boxer on this planet and is considered one of three boxers to carry all 4 main world titles concurrently in two completely different weight lessons.
“He was like, ‘I respect that,’” Crawford mentioned of McGregor’s response to him rejecting the struggle. “‘You respect my sport similar to I respect your sport. You perceive that in case you bought within the Octagon with me, I’d be at a drawback. Identical to if I bought in a boxing ring with you, I’d be at a drawback.’”
McGregor was to return to the UFC earlier this 12 months after sitting on the sidelines following a leg harm in a loss to Dustin Poirier in 2021. The comeback struggle towards Michael Chandler didn’t come to fruition but the Irish MMA star is eager for a return in 2025.
