McGregor continues to lash out and everyone and everything on social media as we await a new date for his return to the cage.
Conor McGregor is taking pot-shots at Saul “Canelo” Alvarez over the boxing champion’s recent business decisions, declaring the Mexican fighter isn’t the draw he claims to be.
Alvarez is set to face Edgar Berlanga on September 14th in Las Vegas, Nevada … the same date and location as UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC at the Sphere. And while Canelo vs. Berlanga clearly has the simpler, better event name, McGregor is convinced Noche UFC will emerge from Mexican Independence Day weekend the much more successful event.
The interaction came from a report that Alvarez was demanding $200 million to move up in weight and fight David Benavidez.
“Canelo is a cornflake,” McGregor declared in a since-deleted tweet. “He has about 300,000 buys in him. He does not generate nothing near what he seeks to be paid. UFC Noche is going to run them from the strip. Sheik Turki was right moving on. Canelo doesn’t sell.”
Saudi boxing power broker Turki Alalshikh recently announced he was moving on from plans to try and set up a fight between Canelo and Terence Crawford. According to Canelo, this was because he refused to sit down and talk with His Excellency in the lead-up to the Berlanga fight.
“They wanted to meet with me and see about the fight with Crawford in February. I said, ‘Look, I’m not interested in talking about another fight. After Sept. 14, we can talk. But not right now.’ … Maybe that’s why they announced this, because I said, ‘No, I don’t want to talk about the fight.’ I’m very focused on [Berlanga].’”
As for the Mexican Independence Day war he’s stepped into with UFC?
“I’m not here to disrespect anyone,” Alvarez said. “I always fight on Mexican Independence weekend and I have my fans and my people, and they’ve never let me down. I just do my thing. I just want to fight on those days.”
While some may think there’s more than enough room for two combat sports events in Las Vegas over one weekend, that’s certainly not how conflict seekers like Dana White and Conor McGregor think. Mexican Independence Day is now set to be a battleground, with plenty of political factions being involved in a bid for financial supremacy.