As the world continues to salivate at the idea that Floyd Mayweather will enter the UFC to rematch UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor, Conor’s coach John Kavanagh is ready to fulfill his promise to do the river dance naked.
That’s because prior to these talks gaining serious steam, the famed SBG founder promised the world that’s exactly what he’d do if Floyd stepped into the UFC’s Octagon.
Now, as Floyd’s debut into the UFC seems like a real-life possibility, Conor’s coach ups the ante even further by saying his pupil could fight Floyd and then fight his real UFC opponent on the same night.
In a brand new interview with the Conor McGregor owned MacLife.com, Coach Kavanagh broke the whole situation down.
Check it out:
“I’m kind of reminded of early last year when I was asked about the boxing fight. And I was doubtful as anybody, and I actually went as far as to stupidly tweet that I’ll do the Irish river dance naked … if Floyd steps in the Octagon. Now, I’m going to be honest, I’m practicing Irish dancing, and I’m getting nervous about that.
“In all seriousness, it’s a crazy world we live in. The fight that could never happen happened. And now this is a fight that can never happen, and it seems to be getting.. I don’t know, there seems to be something forming there. I would absolutely love it.”
“I come into martial arts not to win UFC titles. I come into martial arts out of curiosity of martial arts, self-defense, and really what got me involved in UFC 1, what was so intriguing, was from having done various martial arts my whole life was to see how does a sumo do against a kickboxer? How does a jiu-jitsu guy go against a wing chun practitioner?
“And after the first four or five UFCs, it became obvious what styles were a waste of time, and what training systems worked, and then it became more of a sport. And that’s great, I enjoy it and that’s what I spend most of my time doing. But I still like looking at the odd YouTube video — ‘karate master challenges jiu-jitsu guy’ — and this reminds me of the early days. One of the best boxers ever against one of the best MMA fighters ever, what will happen? We all know what will happen — but still I’m not going to say it doesn’t get the curiosity going.
“So yeah, it’s a bit of a throwback to the UFC 1, 2 and 3 days. More of a spectacle than a sport, but it would be a fun fight to be involved in.”
“Now, let’s be realistic here. If the fight was to happen, I would nearly be saying to Conor and pushing Conor to say, ‘Let’s book that two or three weeks before a real one’. Because we can go in and — I’d almost insist that in that fight Conor shoots a double leg early — because I’d be almost annoyed if he went in there and put him away quickly with MMA striking. We need to see jiu-jitsu in that fight. He needs to be in the mount slapping [Mayweather] about a little bit. So it would be, I think, such a straight, easy fight that we could train realistically for it and then do a competitive MMA fight on the backend of it.
“So I think it’s one of those ones we could squeeze in getting ready for a fight. I know that probably comes across a certain way, but I can only say what I’m thinking, I can only say what I feel … if that was to happen, it’s not the type of fight that Conor’s gonna have to do a real specific 12 weeks for, and then take three or four months off afterwards, and completely get ready for another one.
“You could kind of do that one and fit it in on the night of his real fight.”
Thoughts?
