Conor McGregor continues to tease his subsequent transfer as a boxing match in opposition to Logan Paul in India however one UFC Corridor of Famer has a tough time believing any of that’s true.
After addressing rumors about his return to the UFC, McGregor blindsided the entire world when he revealed he was in negotiations for a combat in opposition to Paul with the Ambani household — led by Mukesh Ambani, a billionaire who’s the richest particular person in Asia — footing the invoice. Stories then started surfacing that McGregor was taking a look at a possible $250 million payday for the combat however Sonnen doesn’t purchase a single phrase of it.
“He’s claiming that he’s going to get $250 million to go field Logan Paul in India for a billionaire investor who desires to deliver consideration and tourism to India,” Chael Sonnen stated on his YouTube channel.
“You’ve received to grasp Conor shouldn’t be boxing [Logan] Paul. There may be not a billionaire in India seeking to deliver individuals over and alter tourism. That’s one thing solely accomplished by a authorities and that authorities has accomplished it in a single place and that’s [Saudi Arabia] within the Center East. Third, there isn’t a test for $250 million. He type of went proper down a listing of joking. He’s kidding. You’re not presupposed to imagine any of that to be true.”
With regards to growing tourism, Sonnen makes a good level when contemplating all of the methods Turki Alalshikh — a member of Saudi Arabia’s royal court docket and the chairman of the Normal Leisure Authority — has spent tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to deliver among the greatest boxing matches to his house nation over the previous couple of years.
That stated, Ambani is a famous sports activities fan because the proprietor of the Mumbai Indians, an Indian Premier League cricket workforce, and he’s additionally the founding father of the India Tremendous League, a soccer league in India.
Regardless, Sonnen simply doesn’t purchase that Ambani is placing up that sum of money to deliver McGregor and Paul to India for a combat that doesn’t actually do a lot for his notoriety or backside line financially.
“One factor a few billionaire that’s prepared to spend that cash for regardless of the cause, is he is likely one of the those that don’t like [being unknown],” Sonnen defined. “And I’ll inform you this, in case you are actually wealthy however you don’t have fame, that bothers them. The one factor worse is to be actually well-known and to not be wealthy.
“So if there was any person handing out $250 million checks, he’s not going to an Irishman beneath contract with the UFC, an American beneath contract with the WWE, deliver them to India and stroll round referred to as ‘wealthy India dude.’ He’s going to offer you his title each likelihood that he has. That’s the commodity he’s getting in trade for the ridiculous sums of cash.”
So far as the fighters being beneath contract, Paul isn’t as restricted as McGregor as a result of he isn’t unique to WWE exterior {of professional} wrestling however the UFC undoubtedly maintains extra management over the previous two-division champion in relation to the place or who he’s allowed to combat.
It’s simply one other impediment that has Sonnen shutting down any hope that McGregor truly finally ends up going through Paul in a boxing match in 2025.
“There’s no fact,” Sonnen stated. “There’s no India new boxing league. There’s no Conor and Paul. There’s no $250 million. There was no a part of the story that was true.”
