Freddie Roach reveals how long it would take to properly train Conor McGregor
The fantasy matchup between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather gets stranger and stranger by the day.
Both fighters have taken turns doing weird, quasi-promotion for the bout, with Mayweather releasing a crude fight poster on social media last week. And now, famed boxing trainer Freddie Roach says that the former boxing champion approached him about training McGregor.
"Mayweather did come by my gym last week and he asked me to take that job if it's offered to me because he told me the fight is going to happen and we're going to make a lot of money," Roach told Inside MMA.
Despite UFC president Dana White insisting that there's "no way in hell" the matchup would happen, Mayweather and McGregor haven't cut back on pumping up the fight.
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— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) May 30, 2016
The main objection to it happening is that both fighters would humiliate the other in their respective discipline, an argument Roach agrees with.
"I told Mayweather, it would take me three years at least to get him ready to fight you. I don't think it's really possible for a MMA fighter to fight a boxer. I don't think it's really even fair, depending on what rules you fight under, one person has too big of an advantage. Mayweather would out box him all day long. I mean Conor McGregor seems like a tough guy and all that, but being a tough guy doesn't really help you in boxing.
"I do know he's training at Wild Card West, one of my gyms on the westside (of Los Angeles), and he's sparring with a couple of my professional fighters over there and I hear he's ... not doing that well with my professionals," Roach finished.
If Roach does decide to train McGregor, we're sure he'll start looking better against those professionals in no time ... and ready for Mayweather by 2019.
