The war of words first described in my award-winning column Articulation of the year: "UFC ain't shit." has, fortunately, continued. To recap, Mayweather bashed on Chuck Liddell, stated he would give Liddell a million dollars if he beat a heavyweight boxer from his promotion, and said that the UFC “ain’t shit”. White came back with a challenge of having one of Mayweather Promotions’ heavyweights fight Liddell under MMA rules.
Mayweather was asked again about the UFC during an open workout this past Tuesday and once again, he didn’t shy away from giving his thoughts on the subject: "UFC’s champions can’t handle boxing. That’s why they are in UFC." Mayweather said. "Put one of our guys in UFC and he’d be the champion. Any good fighter, he’d straight knock them out. Take Chuck Liddell. Put him in the ring with a (boxer) who is just 10-0 and Chuck Liddell would get punished. They wouldn’t have a chance to grapple (us) because we’d knock them out."
White was given the opportunity to fire back at a press conference on Wednesday and he certainly delivered: "Boxers couldn’t become mixed martial artists. That’s why they’re boxers," said White. 'They are one trick ponies. Our guys can do everything. They can box, they can kick box, they can wrestle and do jiu-jitsu. They are much better athletes than boxers. I used to talk like Floyd Mayweather when I was involved in boxing," White said. “I talked just like him, until I educated myself about this sport. These guys are amazing athletes, Floyd Mayweather is one of the best boxers ever, (and) Sean Sherk will whoop his ass in under two minutes. Any day that Mayweather wants to put his money and his ass where his mouth is, I’m ready," White continued. "If he wants to step up, let’s do it."
Mayweather caught wind of White’s comments about Sherk and responded: "I’ll beat him and come home and watch basketball. Why would I go into a sport paying hundreds of thousands when I’m in a sport paying $20 million?" Mayweather said.White says however that he can offer Mayweather the type of money he would be interested in: "I’m willing to put together a fight for Sean Sherk and Floyd Mayweather with numbers that would make sense for Floyd," White said. "And I guarantee you he would not accept it. Floyd Mayweather would never fight in the UFC because he would get his head ripped off."What a bad ass thing to say. Dana White is the fucking man. Also, anyone who can explain what the hell Floyd Mayweather was talking about when he said he would come home and watch basketball will win a lifetime subscription to The Irish Whip.
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awesome post i love hearing about the boxing vs. ufc battle, maryweather is a prick and sherk would destroy him, put him in a rear naked choke and make maryweather shit his pants
that would be a ppv that i would order. maryweather wouldn't stand a chance in the octagon.
Go do a google image search of Sherk. He's so ripped, he could submit Mayweather with one arm. I'll keep you updated on this one, guys. From the back and forth of it (3 comments each), it doesn't look like White and the champ are going to stop anytime soon.
Still, the question remains, why would he go home and watch basketball? It makes no sense at all.
yeah for real that's like saying "ill kick his ass and then eat a cheese sandwich".
The post was great, but Mayweather is right Liddell would be punished, on the other hand Mayweather cannot beat Sherk on boxing skills alone.
I can explain,basically he is saying that he would beat him without breaking a sweat and continue with his day like the fight never happened.
Sherk would beat the shed out of mayweather, mayweather talks alot of trash and hes scare of Miguel Cotto.Chuck is the best and the UFC is better than boxing.
the whole fight between mma & boxing is retarded. white and mayweather are just starting controversy to make money. Boxing is a great sport, and every type of martial arts is a great sport. by the way dana white is not the man, he's making millions while his fighters make chump change, he needs to drop the tough guy attitude because he's a pussy. he's a big reason why couture retired from ufc.
and to answer the question of why he would go home to watch basketball is because when mayweather is not training for a fight or spending his money he is home watching basketball. Mayweather is a avid gambler and picks out winners in basketball games and makes huges bets on his teams. So in other words he is saying that a fight with an mma fighter would be another thing he will win and make money off of - another day where he will go home and watch basketball after a days work. I personally dont agree he can succeed in mma like he thinks, but if he puts in time into learniing other martial arts he might, he is a fast learner, but he can't do it with boxing alone. Does that answer the question?
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