Conor McGregor continues to tease his subsequent transfer as a boxing match towards 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 struggle towards Paul with the Ambani household — led by Mukesh Ambani, a billionaire who’s the richest individual in Asia — footing the invoice. Studies then started surfacing that McGregor was taking a look at a possible $250 million payday for the struggle 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 needs to deliver consideration and tourism to India,” Chael Sonnen stated on his YouTube channel.
“You’ve received to know Conor isn’t boxing [Logan] Paul. There may be not a billionaire in India seeking to deliver individuals over and alter tourism. That’s one thing completely completed by a authorities and that authorities has completed it in a single place and that’s [Saudi Arabia] within the Center East. Third, there isn’t a test for $250 million. He form of went proper down an inventory of joking. He’s kidding. You’re not imagined to imagine any of that to be true.”
In the case of 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 Basic Leisure Authority — has spent a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} to deliver a number of the largest boxing matches to his dwelling 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 staff, 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 amount of cash to deliver McGregor and Paul to India for a struggle that doesn’t actually do a lot for his notoriety or backside line financially.
“One factor a couple of billionaire that’s prepared to spend that cash for regardless of the cause, is he is among the those who don’t like [being unknown],” Sonnen defined. “And I’ll let you know 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 anyone 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 provide you his title each probability that he has. That’s the commodity he’s getting in alternate 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 outdoors {of professional} wrestling however the UFC undoubtedly maintains extra management over the previous two-division champion on the subject of the place or who he’s allowed to struggle.
It’s simply one other impediment that has Sonnen shutting down any hope that McGregor really finally ends up going through Paul in a boxing match in 2025.
“There’s no reality,” 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.”
