'Easy money'… Canelo Alvarez opens the door to huge super fight against Conor McGregor in 2025 amid the Irishman's return
09/12/2024 10:56 AM
Just a few days out from his big fight against Edgar Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena, Canelo Alvarez has admitted that he would be open to a monumental boxing super fight against Conor McGregor.
Ahead of what is a big fight for Canelo Alvarez on Mexcian Independence Day weekend, the main talking point is that his event is going head to head with the monumental UFC 306 event at the Sphere.
Despite that, Canelo, Matchroom, and the UFC are all confident that both events can perform well alongside each other.
Canelo Alvarez open to huge 2025 super fight against Conor McGregor
The huge UFC 306 event is headlined by arguably the UFC’s biggest current active star, Sean O’Malley, who believes the UFC event will largely outperform Canelo’s boxing event.
Someone who did put his name in the hat to headline the once-in-a-lifetime event at the Sphere was Conor McGregor. After his fight against Michael Chandler was canceled this past June, both fighters called for it to be re-booked to take place in the Sphere.
UFC CEO, Dana White, opted against that option though, and recently revealed that the McGregor will not return to action until early 2025.
With that, Canelo has admitted that he would be open to making a super fight against ‘The Notorious’ because of the huge amount of money it could bring in as the two have shared words online over the past few months.
“Yeah, why not (fight Conor McGregor next year), we show boxing is better (than MMA). Way easy money. (I’d knock him out) at any time I want. One round, two rounds, three rounds, whatever I want,” Canelo confidently told Manouk Akopyan.
The Mexican superstar has seemingly been in recent disagreements with Turki Alalshikh after Alalshikh criticized him for not taking difficult fights.
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Although White has confirmed the 36-year-old won’t return until 2025, McGregor is yet to comment on the UFC boss’ comments as he is in New York meeting with breweries.
During his time there, the Irishman has seemingly continued with somewhat of a training schedule as he posted a series of new sparring videos, captioned ‘First spar back, off we go again’ indicating that he may have ramped up training for an upcoming fight.
Despite that, other videos surfaced of the former two-weight world champion pouring pints of his Forged Irish Stout whilst dancing and handing them out to fans.
“He needs to retire. He doing everything but fighting,” one fan commented on X.
Another fan sarcastically commented: “He’s for sure fighting in January folks.”
