The latest news, MMA star "mouth cannon" Connor McGregor announced today that he will return to the field, so that boxing fans cheered: God of War is back! However, it is a little regrettable that McGregor is not against the legendary Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.
Although the McGregor and Pacquiao team discussed a potential "crossover battle" in September this year, revealing that the competition will begin in 2021, and earlier this year, Pacquiao signed a cooperation agreement with McGregor's promotion company, making the duel between the two more and more clear, but as McGregor's new match is finalized, the outside world may have to wait.
Next, the 32-year-old McGregor will appear in the octagon next January against his "old acquaintance" Dostin Priyer, and the two sides will meet in the UFC 257 match, which is also the second match between the two sides, which was staged in 2014, when Priyer held out in front of McGregor for 106 seconds.
McGregor's comeback is both surprising and reasonable, because he didn't have any precursors to this before, but it is reasonable that McGregor has done this "sudden" thing more than once or twice, and UFC President Bai Dana also revealed this information last month. Nicknamed "Diamond", Priyer is 31 years old, from Louisiana, USA, with French and Indian ancestry, and currently has an MMA record of 26 wins and 6 losses, 12 KO opponents. Priyer's best result was the UFC Interim Lightweight Title, and in addition to his clash with McGregor, he also played against "McGregor Terminator" – "Kitty Hawks" Habib Numangmodov in 2019, which was tied by three legs.
With the McGregor game finalized, it means that his clash with Pacquiao has been shelved. Next month, Pacquiao will celebrate his 42nd birthday, and since beating Keith Thurman to win the WBA's "super" welterweight championship last July, Pacquiao has not appeared on stage, during which time many potential opponents have surfaced, but unfortunately have not been able to reach an agreement with them.
Of course, McGregor's choice of Priyer does not mean that his rivalry with Pacquiao has come to an end, but at least the first quarter of next year will not be staged, and it is estimated that if it goes well, the battle between McGregor and Pacquiao will be completed in about a year. Pacquiao is now regarded as a "part-timer", in addition to the identity of the boxer, but also a Filipino congressman, the next step into politics will be his new journey.
With McGregor temporarily unable to fight Pacquiao, in the eyes of some boxing fans, another door may be opened, that is, it is not excluded that Pacquiao will consider the WBO sub-welterweight champion Terrance Crawford, after all, Crawford and his promoter Bob Arum have been calling and fighting for Pacquiao for a long time, but the author believes that this confrontation will never be staged, or the possibility of staging is extremely low, because according to Pacquiao's current age and state, he will not give Crawford such a chance. More importantly, Crawford is not a big star like Floyd Mayweather, and even the market value is far less than that of today's Errol Spence, Pacquiao and such a boxer who is difficult to bring high profits and does not have much chance of winning.
Xiaobian always feels that Pacquiao is the most likely to choose McGregor in the end, because in addition to McGregor, Pacquiao has no more suitable opponents, although the two sides have not been able to come together for the time being, but there is still time, the key is whether the honorarium can impress each other? Considering the attention of the battle between Pacquiao and McGregor, it is believed that the organizers will also do their best to match.
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