Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather have been exchanging verbal jabs with one another for almost a year now. But the odds of them exchanging actual physical ones still seem incredibly slim, especially considering that UFC president Dana White was called "a f*cking comedian" by Floyd after White's $25 million dollar offer came well short of the $100+ million Mayweather was looking for:
However, if Mayweather isn't willing to come out of retirement to exchange blows with McGregor, Manny Pacquiao--who you may recall had his own drawn out (and public) negotiations before he finally got into the ring with Mayweather--says he's willing to take his place. Pacquiao revealed as much to Fox Sports News 500, though he said he'd only do it if McGregor were to cross-over into his sport.
"In boxing? In boxing (I would) but not in (UFC), just boxing," Pacquiao said. "I didn’t see it [footage of Conor sparring]. But if we are talking about Conor McGregor and boxing, it’s different. Boxing is different than MMA.” Fortunately McGregor just so happened to pick up a California boxing license a few months ago, so that alone wouldn't be a hurdle.
Obviously it's unlikely that a Pacquiao/McGregor match would ever actually go down, as the allure of a Mayweather/McGregor fight would be watching one of them have to eat their words after months of sh*t talking each other through the media. If anything it just seems that Pacquiao would love to interject himself into the discussion (kind of like this cash strapped 54-year-old):
We can't wait to see which other self-promoters will try to get in on this in the future. Anyway Pacquiao's next actual fight will come in April against a guy he's never even heard of (Australian Jeff Horn).
No wonder he's trying to get on McGregor's radar.