Conor McGregor Wants To Train With Canelo Alvarez

Conor McGregor plans to train with Canelo Alvarez ahead of a potential return to boxing.

McGregor, the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion, was an Instagram Live where Alvarez’s coach, Eddy Reynoso was in it and McGregor said he wanted to train with the Mexican ahead of his comeback which he is fully confident will go well.

“Eddy Reynoso, big fan of your work and what you’re doing with those guys in the gym,” McGregor said on an Instagram Live (via Mirror). “Canelo Team, ‘Bless you champ,’ my man, appreciate you sir, one day we’ll get to train, I hope so. Like I say, I’m taking this 24 hours at a time, I’m confident but I’m gonna take it day by day and see how this leg goes up, but one thing’s for sure, I’ll be able to box. So you know, I’ll be out here until mid-October anyway I think, I’ll know after this scan how long I’ll be here for, but I’d love to get training with you sir, some time in the future. I’m sure we will, thank you for the support.”

McGregor broke his leg at UFC 264 in July at the end of the first round in his highly-anticipated trilogy against Dustin Poirier. Although he has been focused on MMA, he has hinted at a boxing match for quite some time and even said he had a deal in place with Manny Pacquiao.

Right now, Conor McGregor is living in California and said he lives right by Floyd Mayweather‘s gym so he joked he will break into it.

“We’ve actually taken up shop at that Beverly Hills Hotel. It’s right next to Floyd’s gaff, he has a gaff he bought right after our fight. I’ve been debating breaking into it, go over the back wall. There’s no one in the house, there’s nobody in the gaff. He brought the gaff for $27million or something, and then the property tax. But the gaff is literally just deserted, no-one’s in the thing. Someone comes by to clean the pool every few days, that’s the only person that goes into it. I just have to roll up there and walk in, but I don’t know what the laws are, I’m not trying to lose a visa here, again.”

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