White On Mayweather In The UFC: ‘I Know Conor Wants It’

Conor wants it. Dana wants it. Now the only question is whether Floyd really wants it or if he’s all talk.

This whole Floyd Mayweather in the UFC thing is dumb enough to be an April Fool’s joke, but with possibly up to a billion dollars to be made it continues to be bandied around as a possible thing that’s actually going to happen. Even Dana White, usually the man to put the kibosh on fun but stupid ideas, sounds willing to make it happen if Floyd is.

”I don’t know, we’ll find out,” he said when TMZ asked him about Floyd crossing over from boxing. “I’m interested. Obviously he’s interested, and the last time we were both interested you saw what happened.”

”I know Conor wants it,” White added.

White seemed hesitant to crap on plans laid out by Tyron Woodley to train Mayweather up in wrestling and MMA in general over six to eight weeks. We imagine reminding Floyd he’d get his ass kicked in the Octagon isn’t the kind of talk that makes the fight happen. Even then, he couldn’t hide his thoughts on the matter.

”Obviously he’s a very talented guy,” Dana said about Floyd. “But as far as the wrestling, nobody is going to learn how to wrestle in six to eight weeks. Years. It takes years of wrestling, martial arts, and combat sports training to be a mixed martial artist. Years.”

”He’s a defensive master with his hands, doing all this stuff. When somebody double legs you and drops you on your head, he doesn’t have the defense for that. Yeah, no.”

But according to White, it wouldn’t even get as far as the wrestling because Conor would dismantle the boxing great on the feet.

”The worst thing for Floyd with Conor is the kicks,” White concluded. “He doesn’t have to worry about wrestling. Conor has a great submission game, but you don’t have to worry about any of that, you gotta worry about Conor’s kicks. Floyd’s never been kicked in the leg and he’s definitely never been kicked in the head.”