Islam Makhachev is interested in a boxing match with Team Khabib rival, Conor McGregor, and he really doesn\u2019t care how much he gets paid.<\/p>\n
Makhachev, who has worked tirelessly over the past five years to become a two-division UFC champion and the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, has become confident in all of his skills. This includes his world-class wrestling and submission game, as well as his budding striking.<\/p>\n
The reigning UFC welterweight champion has significantly evolved on the feet over the years and would be willing to put his striking to the test against the best the UFC has to offer. While McGregor is certainly past his prime and just suffered a brutal injury during his comeback fight at UFC 329, \u201cNotorious\u201d is still considered one of the best boxers in mixed martial arts (MMA).<\/p>\n
Remember, he went 10 rounds with Floyd Mayweather Jr. back in 2017 and sports some of the most iconic knockouts in UFC history.<\/p>\n
During a recent interview with Ushatayka, Makhachev revealed that he\u2019d be willing to meet McGregor inside of the boxing ring to prove \u201cNotorious\u201d is nothing more than a one-round fighter. In fact, Makhachev is so confident that he doesn\u2019t even need to get paid that much to fight McGregor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes maybe he\u2019s dangerous in the first round, but after that I don\u2019t think he has any chance,\u201d said Makhachev in an interview earlier this week. \u201cHonestly, regardless of the purse I\u2019d box [Conor].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Makhachev is interested in a boxing match with Team Khabib rival, Conor McGregor, and he really doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,33601,82,702],"class_list":["post-894951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894951","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=894951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}