McGregor’s longtime coach is in for this to happen

Over the last few weeks, the Boxing Legend has posted videos of him entering a cage while Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza has been using “MayweatherMMA” hashtags to complete the tease of Mayweather potentially fighting under the UFC banner inside of the Octagon.

The latest shot that Floyd Mayweather decided to take was a photoshopped image showing him MMA gloves and elbowing the UFC lightweight champion, Conor McGregor.

McGregor and Mayweather have been exchanging words in some kind of attempt to make a rematch happen.

As recently as last week there was a report that stated that both sides were in talks on making a second fight happen in the Octagon.

McGregor’s longtime coach John Kavanagh has spoke about the potential fight and Mayweather making the jump from the boxing world to the Octagon.

“I’m kind of reminded of early last year when I was asked about the boxing fight,” Kavanagh told The Mac Life.

“I was as doubtful as anybody and actually went as far as to stupidly tweeted that I would do the Irish Riverdance 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 nver happen happened and 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,” said Kavanagh. I came into martial arts not to win UFC titles. I came into martial arts out of curiosity for martial arts and self-defense. And really what got me involved in UFC 1, what was intriguing after doing martial arts my whole life, was how does a sumo (wrestler) do against a kickboxer? How does a jiu-jitsu guy do against a Wing Chun practitioner?

“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. 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 old school video — ‘Karate master challenges jiu-jitsu guy’. This reminds me of the early days, one of the best boxers ever against one of the best MMA fighters ever, what will happen?”