CONOR MCGREGOR has been offered a shot at the Baddest Motherf***** Belt at the new 60,000 seat Las Vegas Raiders stadium. Welterweight UFC superstar Jorge Masvidal wants to christen the brand spanking new ground when it opens in the summer with a monster MMA showdown against the Irish icon. First McGregor, 31, has to get […]
CONOR MCGREGOR has been offered a shot at the Baddest Motherf***** Belt at the new 60,000 seat Las Vegas Raiders stadium.
Welterweight UFC superstar Jorge Masvidal wants to christen the brand spanking new ground when it opens in the summer with a monster MMA showdown against the Irish icon.
First McGregor, 31, has to get through Donald Cerrone on Saturday night and then Masvidal fancies a crack at the biggest name in the game.
“Gamebred” would even pick the McGregor battle ahead of a crack at the 170lbs UFC title that bitter enemy Kamaru Usman holds.
He said: “That fight, at that stadium would be huge, 60,000 people man, it would be huge to break the box office record there and pop that cherry.
“I am not waiting for anybody but, if the right money is put in front of me and the contracts are signed, then I would wait for an event like that.
“I don’t know what Conor’s plans are, I just want to get paid well and to take care of my children.
“It’s a money thing but, if I was getting the same money for both, I like the Conor fight because I like how many eyeballs he brings to the sport. And I cannot stand Usman.”
Masvidal, whose flying-knee finish against Ben Askren in July was the fastest win in UFC history, at just five seconds, will be cageside at the T-Mobile Arena this weekend.
But the former backyard brawler has refused to gatecrash the octagon and make a play for McGregor, if he wins.
And 35-year-old veteran believes Cerrone’s bad habit for slow starting and McGregor’s notoriously fast starts could earn the Irishman a rapid win to rival his own sensational recent victory.
Masvidal said: “The fight could go two ways, Cowboy could make it sticky by wrestling and grappling and using the clinch and making it interesting.
“But Conor is one of the best guys in the world off the block and Cowboy is not, so that could be a recipe for disaster for Cowboy.”
*BT Sport Box Office will show Conor McGregor’s return to the Octagon against Donald Cerrone exclusively live on Saturday via the web or the BT Sport Box Office App.
