UFC may promote boxing fight between McGregor and Mayweather

Mayweather (left) and Conor (right): fight could happen Photo: Reproduction

UFC president Dana White announced this Friday (13) that he made an offer of US$25 million to Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather face each other under boxing rules, as well as a percentage of pay-per-view sales. It would be the first time that Ultimate would promote a fight of the noble art.

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Dana White's idea is to organize an event where the main fight would be boxing, but with several MMA fights, including duels for UFC world titles.

“There is a real offer for Floyd. He knows that Conor McGregor It’s really a money fight”, commented Dana, on the program “The Herd”, on the North American channel Fox Sports.

Dana White's expectation is that the event with McGregor and Mayweather will attract more than 2,5 million pay-per-view purchases. No event in UFC history has even reached 2 million sales.

Recently, Floyd said that Conor denied an offer made by his company to pay him US$15 million plus a cut of pay-per-view sales, against a fixed US$100 million salary for the multi-time boxing champion.