{"id":247425,"date":"2017-08-23T04:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=247425"},"modified":"2017-08-23T04:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:54:47","slug":"conor-mcgregor-responds-rumors-difficult-weight-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-responds-rumors-difficult-weight-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor responds to rumors of a difficult weight cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve had your finger on the pulse of the fight game over the last few days, you&#8217;ve heard that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is worried that his Saturday night opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/floyd-mayweather-conor-weight-heavy-weigh-in\/\">going to miss the 154-pound limit for their bout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cConor McGregor is extremely heavy right now,&#8221; Mayweather recently told FightHype. &#8220;I think he is 164, so he still has 10 pounds to go. Y\u2019all get that extra money if he can\u2019t make the weight, get those extra millions ready, Dana. Or the UFC, get them extra millions ready. Somebody gotta\u2019 pay a fine, but he gotta\u2019 get that weight down. A true champion is, like I said before, I true champion is disciplined and very responsible, but you know, we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna\u2019 make the weight. Even if he do make the weight, that\u2019s even better, but if he don\u2019t make the weight, we still gonna fight. But it\u2019s gonna\u2019 be a be a heavy fine. Give me that money.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While those in the know understand that a 10-pound weight cut is no great challenge, especially for an experienced professional fighter like Conor McGregor, these comments from Mayweather were enough to drive the fight game into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, McGregor has responded to these worrying comments from Mayweather. Hopefully, his response puts any doubt to bed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHe needs to shut his mouth,\u201d the Irish MMA star recently told the media (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/08\/conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-needs-to-shut-his-mouth-weight-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com)<\/a> \u201cIt is a fool of a thing. Let him keep praying, praying for weight, for fatigue, praying for me to take a backward step. All he is doing is praying, but he is praying to the new god of boxing.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Conor McGregor will make weight for his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor-vs-floyd-mayweather\/\">Saturday night boxing showdown with Floyd Mayweather<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/23\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve had your finger on the pulse of the fight game over the last few days, you&#8217;ve heard that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is worried that his Saturday night opponent, Conor McGregor, is going to miss the 154-pound limit for their bout. \u201cConor McGregor is extremely heavy right now,&#8221; Mayweather recently told FightHype. &#8220;I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":244916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conor McGregor responds to rumors of a difficult weight cut | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-responds-rumors-difficult-weight-cut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conor McGregor responds to rumors of a difficult weight cut | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you&#8217;ve had your finger on the pulse of the fight game over the last few days, you&#8217;ve heard that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is worried that his Saturday night opponent, Conor McGregor, is going to miss the 154-pound limit for their bout. \u201cConor McGregor is extremely heavy right now,&#8221; 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