Conor McGregor offers blunt response to Logan Paul | Boxing News

Conor McGregor has revealed he will not struggle Logan Paul, blaming the UFC for blocking the potential conflict.

The MMA famous person took to social media final month, inflicting a stir by saying he was in discussions for a boxing match with Jake Paul’s elder sibling. “The rumours of a bout with Topuria are false. I am in preliminary agreements with the Ambani family to face Logan Paul in a boxing exhibition in India. I have agreed. I will then seek my return to the Octagon,” McGregor revealed.

Tensions appeared to rise when McGregor and Paul had a face-off in Washington earlier this week as studies advised the struggle could be price $500million  Despite a seemingly cordial picture of Jake, Logan, and McGregor surfacing online, McGregor later made it clear that relations have been removed from pleasant, as he threatened to slap the Paul brothers.

In an explosive video on his official YouTube channel, Logan Paul gave followers a sneak peek into his intense encounter with Conor McGregor. “It’s all sweet here,” the Irish fighter remarked during a handshake earlier than saying to Logan, “You kept your mouth shut, you did. I thought we were going to get the fight going. You’re very quiet.”

Not one to be silenced, Logan inquired: “What did you think the best course of action was for that? ” McGregor hit back, accusing Logan of being underneath the WWE’s thumb: “You’re giving all this, ‘Dana this, Dana that’. You’re f***ing controlled by the WWE as well, bro. Don’t be giving it all this.”

Tensions escalated when the footage confirmed them collectively on a bus, the place McGregor hyped up a potential conflict within the ring and issued a daring risk involving not simply Logan and Jake Paul, but in addition KSI: “This is the real deal, you know that bro. We’ll do it,” he asserted. “We can do what? 190, 195lbs? [Jake] was sick. He was sick over it! Listen, here’s the deal. I’m going to slap the head off the two of you and KSI. “You are nixers to me. Do you perceive that? Side jobs.” Logan, however, seemed unfazed and retorted with a jab at McGregor’s UFC activity, or lack thereof: “You cannot even do your foremost job,” he quipped. “How are you going to do a aspect job?

But McGregor has now dashed hopes of a extremely anticipated struggle, confirming on Thursday night that the bout is off the desk. “It is what it is,” McGregor disclosed to “The Schmo”. “The UFC just aren’t into it. The offer was there on the table, in writing. Both athletes will say, ‘He’s not fighting,’ but both athlete are under the TKO banner. UFC, WWE both rising up. The stock price of TKO Holding Ground (is) through the roof. New market in India opened up and booming. It was business savvy, and business sense to make the fight happen. Or should I say the glorified spar happen.

“In between this ready period that we discover ourselves in earlier than I can get back to the octagon, it made excellent sense on the calendar to go forward with it. The UFC weren’t into it. The WWE, I’m not sure what their curiosity in it was. I simply knew the UFC weren’t into it.”

Dana White, McGregor’s boss, will likely be pleased with this development. The UFC president recently indicated on Pardon My Take that he expects McGregor to make his comeback in the fall of this year, despite McGregor’s own aim for a November return. White dismissed the notion of McGregor facing off against the Paul brothers or KSI, saying, “Eventually,” when asked about McGregor’s return to the UFC in 2025. “No no [he won’t fight KSI or Logan Paul]. I’m hoping that Conor McGregor will return within the fall.”