Holly Holm made the transition from boxing to mixed martial arts, and she believes Floyd Mayweather Jr. could do the same.
“I’m sure he won’t mind putting in the work if he decided to do something with MMA,” she said on TMZ Live, via a Thursday story from TMZ Sports.
TMZ explained Holm—who famously knocked out then-undefeated Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 in 2015—won 18 title fights during her time in boxing before she transitioned to UFC.
Mayweather has never fought a professional MMA fight after compiling a 50-0 record in the boxing ring, but there is a natural connection considering his most recent bout came against career UFC fighter Conor McGregor—who was fighting a professional boxing match for the first time.
UFC President Dana White previously said his company was talking about a possible deal with Mayweather, per ESPN.com’s Brett Okamoto, but Money offered a rebuttal during an interview with FightHype (h/t MMA Weekly).
“I never said I was going to fight in the UFC,” he said. “I didn’t say that. I said if I wanted to and what I could do. I’m not going to do it, though.”
McGregor seemingly didn’t take too kindly to that and appeared to direct an NSFW tweet Mayweather’s way, calling him a p—y.
Their boxing match, which Mayweather won via a 10th-round technical knockout, drew the second-most pay-per-view buys ever at 4.3 million, per Brian Campbell of CBSSports.com. A potential rematch in the Octagon figures to attract millions of viewers as well.
Holm seems to think Mayweather would be up for the challenge.
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