A fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is closer to becoming a reality.
Mayweather posted a picture of the pair on instagram this week teasing the bout. It’s now being reported that Freddie Roach has been approached and asked to train McGregor.
Roach says Mayweather visited him at his Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles to discuss the possibility of helping the Dubliner prepare for the fight.
The highly rated boxing trainer told Inside MMA on AXS TV: “There are a lot of rumours out there that I'm getting calls from Conor, asking me to train him; they're not true.”
“He has not called me yet but Mayweather did come by my gym last week and he asked me to take that job if it's offered to me.”
“He told me the fight is going to happen and we're going to make a lot of money.”
Roach also revealed that McGregor is preparing for the fight by training with boxers and sparring at boxing gyms. The American though is not impressed by what he’s heard:
“I do know that he's trained at Wild Card West, which is one of my gyms on the west side, 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.”
"Mayweather is the best boxer in the world and I think he would absolutely not even lose a round against a guy with Conor's experience.”
“I mean, he looks like an okay boxer, he's a very good MMA fighter, but the thing is this is boxing and he's kind of a beginner at boxing.”
“It probably would take me almost three years to get him ready for a fight against a guy like Mayweather.”
