Conor McGregor‘s return to the UFC Octagon has been placed on the backburner … because the fight sports activities legend says he is bought 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 a substitute, he says he is bought his sights set on the WWE Celebrity … and it seems 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 stated. “I’ll then search my return to the Octagon.”
After all, the Pauls aren’t 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 prime fights have been in UFC … though his largest 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 deal with 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 is no such thing as a restrict to how a lot dough they’re keen to drop — in any case, Rihanna bought a reported $6 million to carry out at a pre-wedding occasion for Mukesh‘s son, Anant … simply to show round and e-book Justin Bieber a number of months later.
