UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor is trying to land a cross-promotional bout with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather. While many believed the fight would never happen, its possibility has been rapidly growing into a probable cross-promotional prospect over the past few days. Mayweather has officially come out of retirement for McGregor. The T-Mobile Arena is speculated to be booked for the event, though nothing official has been acknowledged.
The fight is seeminlgy making its way to the ring, one way or another.
In anticipation for the hopefully incipient fight, fighters and professionals have begun analyzing each competitor’s chance at victory.
Most recently, UFC commentating veteran Joe Rogan has gone into detail of what he believes McGregor will have to do to defeat Mayweather inside the boxing ring.
On yesterday’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan explained his thoughts on McGregor’s chances in the potential bout.
As transcribed by MMA Fighting,
“There’s something about [Conor McGregor]. I’m telling you, there’s something about that dude. He’s got something going on. He’s got a little something extra special but he would need everything to line up. Mayweather would have to dismiss him as a threat. He’d have to not train hard enough, he’d have to not seriously consider the possibility that Conor connects on him and knocks him out. And then Conor would have to do some roughhousing. He’d have to hold him in the clinch. He’d have to hold him and hit him. He’d have to try and get off as many shots and bully him around and wear him out. It’s a possibility. He’s a much bigger man. He’s a much bigger man. If you compare the two of them frame-wise, if they ever do do it, and they’re standing right at each other, looking down at each other doing eye-to-eye, you’re gonna go ‘oh, s**t.’ [Conor]’s a big f**k. He can make that 145-pound cut when he’s on death’s door, but Mayweather makes it easy.”
