UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley claims he will be helping Floyd Mayweather train for his transition into MMA.
After the two teaser videos he released more than a month ago, Floyd Mayweather Jr. got the world thinking if he would indeed make a jump from boxing to MMA. But if he did decide to seriously go through this transition, he apparently has a potential training partner for it already.
Speaking on his own TMZ Sports segment “Hollywood Beatdown,” UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley claimed he has been in talks with Mayweather himself since they bumped into each other during the Jordan Party at the NBA All-Star Weekend in mid-February.
“Floyd Mayweather is interested in taking a mixed martial arts bout, maybe a few of them. So who better than ‘The Chosen One’ to teach him the ropes on how we get off the ropes and get on the cage?” Woodley said.
“We’re getting it set up.”
Just like how many thought of how Conor McGregor would do in a boxing match, most people have already dismissed Mayweather’s chances in an MMA fight. Woodley, however, begs to differ.
“Think about this: Floyd Mayweather’s one of the best strikers of all-time,” Woodley said. “How many guys in the UFC – they can’t wrestle and can’t grapple, but they consider themselves a stand-up fighter? They have to stand across one of the greatest strikers ever, they’re gonna be in a world of smoke.”
Woodley adds that he can get Mayweather MMA ready in just two and a half months.
“For (training) the kicks, he might need two or three weeks,” Woodley said. “For some of the wrestling defensive things, it’s gonna be very similar to boxing, because boxing has a lot of angles, a lot of head motion, a lot of using your great footwork. So it’s the same thing to stop the shot before it gets to us through footwork.”
“I would say in total, maybe two and a half months.”
Mayweather, who turned 41 years old last February 24th, has yet to confirm or deny Woodley’s statements.