McGregor believes if a fight with Mayweather actually happens, it’s the pound-for-pound boxing king who needs to cater to his needs and not the other way around.
“That’s the truth of it. Who else can he fight? He fights someone else in the boxing realm and it’s like all of a sudden the pay rate goes from $100 million to $15 million. So he needs me,” McGregor said.
“If he wants to talk, we can talk. But it’s me who’s in control here.”
As far as the rules of the fight go, McGregor doesn’t mind facing Mayweather on his turf in the boxing ring as opposed to a mixed martial arts contest.
In fact, McGregor thinks his advantages would grow if he only had to focus on boxing instead of the full facet of skills needed to compete in MMA.
“I don’t really care about rules. He can make all the rules he wants,” McGregor said. “I know he will not want to fight in a mixed martial arts contest, in a true fight. If you want to fight in a limited fight, that’s no problem. We can do that. I will set aside many other forms of fighting that I practice in and I will focus on one particular craft. I’m in the game of spinning plates.
“I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a taekwondo plate. I’m spinning a jiu-jitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. A karate plate. There’s so many spinning plates in this game. If I was to just put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.”
Whether it’s boxing Mayweather or fighting someone like Nate Diaz in the UFC, McGregor is resigned to returning to action sooner rather than later because he’s already starving for another chance to prove himself in the ring or in the Octagon.
“I feel like my gut has been emptied again,” McGregor said. “I don’t let anything outside interfere with it, as you can tell, as all of that stuff blew up. I’m very focused on returning 100-percent.”
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