Boxing legend and former champion may have some help with his transition from boxing to MMA.

It’s been well documented over the last few months by various media outlets that Mayweather Jr. has posted videos of him entering a cage.

At the same time, 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.

UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley noted during a recent segment on his Hollywood Beatdown show that he has talked with Mayweather about training together to prepare him for his potential move to MMA.

“I saw him at the Jordan party during (NBA) All-Star weekend,” Woodley said, explaining how he and Mayweather opened discussions (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting).

“We started chatting about training MMA and we decided let’s connect, let’s hook up in Vegas and do some training and get him ready for MMA.”

“Floyd Mayweather’s one of the best strikers of all-time,” Woodley said. “How many guys in the UFC that can’t wrestle and can’t grapple that consider themselves a standup fighter, but they have to stand across one of the greatest strikers ever, they gonna be in a world of smoke.”

Woodley has also pointed out that Mayweather would have to work on defending kicks and takedowns because it’s likely his potential opponent wouldn’t want tos tand and exchange with him and turn it into a boxing bout.

Woodley doubled down on his claim to help train Mayweather by saying, “We already getting it set up.”

There has been some speculation that the UFC could go into a different direction than booking Mayweather against Conor McGregor. Instead of that fight, they could do a showdown between the boxing legend and former WWE star CM Punk.

If you recall, leading into his first fight with McGregor, Mayweather stated that this would serve as his retirement fight, which would leave him with a perfect 50-0 pro-boxing record.

If this fight does happen then it wouldn’t impact his boxing record but rather his MMA record.

Now, let’s dive into Punk. He made his UFC debut in a welterweight bout against Mickey Gall back at UFC 203.

As seen in the fight, Gall dominated Punk and submitted him in just minutes in the very first round. This fight also marked Punk’s pro-MMA debut.