Butterbean Doesn’t Think McGregor vs. Mayweather Will Be Sanctioned

Butterbean doesn’t have a lot of hope that a fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather will be sanctioned. The former MMA fighter spoke with MMAjunkie about the anticipated bout, saying that he doesn’t think it’s likely to get sanctioned based on his own experiences when he tried to fight Mark Hunt at PRIDE 32 in 2006 in Las Vegas.

He said, “If McGregor were to go out and get some boxing matches, I don’t see…I mean, just personally I went through it myself when I went to fight in Vegas on a PRIDE show, and they wanted me and Mark Hunt to fight MMA, and I wasn’t qualified to fight a level of Mark Hunt in MMA. I don’t see a commission in the U.S. approving it, because of McGregor’s lack of boxing matches. He just doesn’t have the experience. It’s going to be a boring fight. It’ll be a one-sided fight – put it that way.”