{"id":395965,"date":"2026-01-08T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:13:15","slug":"conor-mcgregor-challenges-floyd-mayweather-to-mma-fight-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395965\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Challenges Floyd Mayweather to MMA Fight at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/conor-mcgregor\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a> has reignited his rivalry with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/floyd-mayweather\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a>, challenging the undefeated boxing legend to an MMA fight at the upcoming UFC White House event.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-division UFC champion took to social media to call out Mayweather, sharing a throwback video from their 2017 press tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Floyd Mayweather, when you are ready for that promised MMA bout, I am here,&#8221; McGregor wrote. &#8220;The White House is nice in the summer, I heard. Just kidding Mike! Although I could fight both the same night. Floyd MMA? EASY. 10 seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The callout references Mayweather&#8217;s comments during their 2017 boxing match buildup, when he boasted &#8220;I&#8217;ll whoop your ass in the Octagon.&#8221; That bout generated 4.3 million PPV buys and over $600 million in revenue, making it the second highest-grossing fight in combat sports history.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor hasn&#8217;t competed since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 in July 2021. His 18-month anti-doping suspension for missed drug tests expires on March 20, 2026 \u2014 clearing him for the confirmed UFC White House event on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mayweather, 48, appears to have other plans. He&#8217;s already <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-blue-600 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/s46397.p1736.sites.pressdns.com\/mike-tyson-vs-floyd-mayweather-exhibition\/\">committed to an exhibition bout against Mike Tyson<\/a> scheduled for March 2026 in Africa. The boxing legend has never competed in professional MMA.<\/p>\n<p>While <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-blue-600 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/s46397.p1736.sites.pressdns.com\/michael-chandler-conor-mcgregor-fight-plans\/\">Michael Chandler remains the expected opponent<\/a> for McGregor&#8217;s return, the Irishman clearly isn&#8217;t ruling out more ambitious targets for the historic South Lawn showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor has reignited his rivalry with Floyd Mayweather, challenging the undefeated boxing legend to an MMA fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,639,641,30209,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-395965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-conor-mcgregor","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-floyd-mayweather","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}