Conor McGregor hasn’t stepped foot inside the octagon in more than nine months but fighters are still calling out the 30-year-old looking to get a bout with him in the near future.
This past weekend at UFC 239, Jorge Masvidal made a name for himself outside the mixed martial arts community with his record-breaking, flying knee KO of Ben Askren.
On Thursday, Masvidal was a guest on “The Dan Le Batard Show” where he mentioned the two people he’d love to fight next and one of them happened to be Conor McGregor, who Masvidal believes would make for an easy paycheck.
“Definitely the title, definitely Kamaru Usman interests me. He’s got the title and that’s what I want but he’s always having injuries and things are happening,” Masvidal said on “The Dan LeBatard Show”. “Another guy that interests me because it’s just a fight that if we made it, it’s going to sell a lot and I’m going to get the money that I deserve and you can see you put me in there in a fight and I’m going to fight. I’m going to give you what the fans wants. I’ve never pulled out of a fight.
“I want [Conor] McGregor. I want to break his face. I think that’s an easy paycheck. He’s got these cash symbols written all over his face for me. I just don’t see it going his way if I’m honest with you.”
“He backs down. He taps. I’ve never tapped in my whole entire career. He’s tapped a couple times so that’s backing down in my book. It’s something I’ve never done and I feel like I’d break him. It would be an easy fight."
The 34-year-old Masvidal is 2-0 inside the octagon in 2019 and owns a professional record of 34-13 and is 5-2 over his last seven bouts.
(H/T MMAFighting.com, The Dan Le Batard Show)
