Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather has been stating that he is going to start training soon for a potential professional MMA debut.
UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway has heard what Mayweather has claimed, but calls it nothing more than a publicity stunt.
“I mean, I love (Tyron) Woodley,” Holloway said on The MMA Hour. “Woodley’s the man. He’s a great dude, but I swear he talks about everything. He’s talking about everything. Whatever you can talk about, he talks about it. That guy is always on TMZ or something, so he wants to be talked about all of the time, that’s it. Woodley, you are the man, brother, but I think it’s a PR stunt. How can you not think it’s not a PR stunt? I don’t know. This guy is always — every time I see on Twitter something retweeting about TMZ, it’s Tyron Woodley talking about it. So it’s like, gosh, is this guy a champion or is he a TMZ reporter? What is going on, my friend?”
Tyron Woodley is the UFC Welterweight Champion and the champ claims that Mayweather has spoken to him about training for an MMA bout.
Holloway also doesn’t understand why the public is buying into what Mayweather says about crossing over into MMA.
“You guys really believe this guy is going to take an MMA fight, at however old he is right now, against a young guy that’s tough who people consider one of the best in the sport? It just blows my mind, man. If people believe that kind of stuff, it’s wild. I really don’t know what to say,” says Holloway.
Mayweather also recently claimed that he is applying for an MMA license soon, but declined to give an exact time frame for when that could happen.
