Conor McGregor‘s return to the UFC Octagon has been placed on the backburner … because the fight sports activities legend says he is obtained another enterprise to deal with first — a boxing exhibition with Logan Paul.
Infamous dropped the bombshell information early Tuesday morning … denying rumors he is slated to tackle featherweight champion Ilia Topuria in Dana White‘s group.
As an alternative, he says he is obtained his sights set on the WWE Famous person … and it appears like they’re far alongside in negotiations, as McGregor claimed he is in “preliminary agreements” with the extraordinarily rich Ambani household to take a boxing match with the Maverick in India.
“I’ve agreed,” the previous champ-champ mentioned. “I’ll then search my return to the Octagon.”
After all, the Pauls are not any strangers to taking over large names within the ring — Jake is a month faraway from defeating Mike Tyson in one of many most-watched boxing matches within the historical past of the game … and Logan went toe-to-toe with Floyd Mayweather in 2021.
As for McGregor, the vast majority of his high fights have been in UFC … though his greatest payday by far got here after his TKO loss to Mayweather — a 2017 boxing occasion that put a reported $130 million in his checking account.
Logan — the previous WWE United States Champion — has but to handle McGregor’s reveal … though he has principally been centered on elevating his new child daughter, Esmé, with fiancée Nina Agdal.
As for the Ambani fam, there isn’t any restrict to how a lot dough they’re keen to drop — in any case, Rihanna obtained a reported $6 million to carry out at a pre-wedding occasion for Mukesh‘s son, Anant … simply to show round and guide Justin Bieber a couple of months later.
