{"id":296658,"date":"2018-12-31T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=296658"},"modified":"2018-12-31T08:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:05:16","slug":"manager-floyd-mayweather-is-begging-for-fight-with-khabib-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/manager-floyd-mayweather-is-begging-for-fight-with-khabib-nurmagomedov\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager: Floyd Mayweather is ‘begging’ for fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning in Tokyo, Japan, Floyd Mayweather authored a lopsided destruction of kickboxing whiz Tenshin Nasukawa in a boxing exhibition bout (watch here<\/a>). From the sounds of it, there could be another interesting crossover fight in the boxing legend’s future.<\/p>\n

Speaking to TMZ Sports<\/a>, MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz claimed that Floyd Mayweather has been “begging” to fight his star client Khabib Nurmagomedov in their recent text exchanges.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and him have been texting each other for the last month and if he says he did not, I\u2019m gonna put everything on line. Do not lie, Floyd,\u201d said Abdelaziz (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019s very much begging for the fight. I told him, I said he\u2019s 57 years old, his body\u2019s weak, he\u2019s fragile, he\u2019s got a small head. People think I\u2019m crazy but I think Khabib would beat his ass. He thinks Khabib is easy money but Khabib is much younger, much stronger, more tougher than Conor, a guy that went to the eleventh round with him. And Conor gave up, he\u2019s a quitter. Khabib is no quitter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali Abdelaziz then unleashed a tirade discrediting the fighting ability of Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, Floyd Mayweather is not a fighter, he\u2019s an athlete,\u201d he said. \u201c[In] the UFC, you have to be a full blown fighter. If we catch Floyd Mayweather on the streets, we\u2019ll beat his ass because he can\u2019t defend himself. He\u2019s an athlete. He doesn\u2019t have enough balls to fight in a real fight. Khabib will fight you in an elevator, phone booth, [he\u2019ll] fight you anywhere. Floyd Mayweather only can fight you in a boxing ring. He\u2019s gonna call himself a fighter, okay, but he don\u2019t have the balls to go to the UFC so we will fight him in a boxing fight and beat his ass, no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, if he wants it, the fight is here,\u201d Abdelaziz concluded. \u201cWe like this fight, but he has to come a little bit better with it. He knows what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think we’ll see Khabib Nurmagomedov fight Floyd Mayweather in the New Year?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 12\/31\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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