Floyd all but confirms Vegas fight with McGregor
As the fight world continues its obsession with the potential super fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, boxing’s most unsafe man, Gennady Golovkin, is preparing to step into the ring Saturday night for what he calls a “true fight” against the tough (but probably doomed) Danny Jacobs.
Conlan, 25, opened the scheduled six-rounder mainly working his jab as McGregor stood at ringside next the media section and shouted instructions to him. Conlan stopped Ibarra in the third round. I am going to have to knock him out. He got the win.
“I don’t see any reason why we can’t sign a deal for a fight with Canelo for September”, he said.
Conlan joins an elite group of fellow Olympic medalists, including George Foreman, Evander Holyfield and Jermaine Taylor, to make his professional debut on boxing’s most hallowed ground.
While the undefeated Golovkin thinks that the fight between McGregor and Mayweather is a “business fight” and a will be miss match on paper, UFC star Gunnar Nelson feels that McGregor can cause a huge upset when he steps inside the ring with Mayweather. I didn’t think I performed that well but who has a debut like this and has this much pressure on them? How would I let somebody take this guy that I built and do it without me?
“I do think it’s gonna happen”, White said Wednesday night on “Conan”. However, his appeal has extended to MMA, with Irish two-weight UFC champ McGregor repeatedly calling for the American to face him in a multimillion-dollar hybrid fight – a bout Mayweather has yet to rule out. He doesn’t acknowledge any of Conlan’s amateur highlights as being relevant to the professional game and says “I’m ready for a war”.
With that, he stormed off to a St. Patrick’s Day party he is hosting.
In one of boxing’s most anticipated debuts since Oscar De La Hoya in 1992, Top Rank entertained The Theater fans with Irish Dancers. Trust me on that! “Twenty-eight years of age, confident as a motherf–, long, rangy, risky with every hand. You’re all gonna eat your words, the world is gonna eat their words”. It’s getting close. Don’t worry about it. You’ll hear about it.