Terence Crawford isn’t considering a crossover combat with Conor McGregor.
Final week, throughout a livestream occasion with Duelbits, former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor touched on quite a lot of subjects within the fight sports activities world, together with his ideas on fellow UFC champions and his all-time GOAT record. However one other subject McGregor addressed was his attainable return to the boxing ring, suggesting that there was discuss of a pair of crossover fights between himself and Crawford, sponsored by Turki Alalshikh and the Normal Leisure Authority of Saudi Arabia.
“Crawford could be very slick,” McGregor mentioned. “He additionally has a wrestling pedigree. You recognize they’re at all times speaking to me about belts. I’ve already boxed a boxer. You need [to get] a boxer to [fight] MMA [with] me. I’m probably the most [revenue] producing [star].
“So we’re speaking back-and-forth, it’s like a two-fight deal. He rings up Crawford in entrance of me.. I mentioned ‘Crawford, they’re speaking to me right here about you and me, a two-fight deal, MMA first, boxing second. I do know you’ve gotten an in depth background and balls the scale of a Bengali tiger. They’re asking for a combat. It’s going to [be worth] lots of of tens of millions on the road. What’s up?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t need to take a kick.’ So that you’ve obtained to respect that.”
And apparently, that truly occurred, identical to McGregor mentioned.
On Tuesday, Crawford spoke with Bernie Tha Boxer, the place he addressed McGregor’s claims, backing up what “Infamous” mentioned and confirming that he has no real interest in stepping within the cage with the previous UFC champion.
“I instructed Conor, I mentioned hell no!” Crawford mentioned. “They known as me and they provided me the combat. Me and Conor obtained on the cellphone and we begin politicking, making an attempt to determine one thing out, and I simply instructed him, ‘I’m not getting in no f*cking octagon with you so that you might be kicking me and elbowing me and shit.’
“He get to laughing and shit was like, ‘Man, I respect that, since you respect my sport identical to I respect your sport. You perceive that in the event you get within the octagon with me, you’re going to be at an obstacle. Similar to if I get in a boxing ring with you, I’m going to be at an obstacle. However we might make a shit-ton of cash!’ I mentioned, yeah, generally it ain’t concerning the cash. I can generate income however you ain’t about to be kicking me, dude. Them kicks and elbows, that shit ain’t no joke.”
Crawford is among the high pound-for-pound boxers on the planet and one in every of solely three males to carry undisputed titles in two weight lessons within the four-belt period. Most just lately, Crawford once more moved up in weight, successful the WBA and WBO interim mild middleweight titles with a win over Israil Madrimov again in August.
