Anderson Silva currently has his hands full with rising middleweight talent Israel Adesanya, but ‘The Spider’ can’t help but theorise over a potential ‘super-fight’ against former ‘champ-champ’ Conor McGregor.
McGregor suggested the match-up in the lead-up to his championship bout against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, which he lost via fourth-round submission in front of a sold-out crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. And Silva, who turns 44 in April, was quick to accept the Irishman’s ‘challenge.’
“It’s not about money, Conor. It’s about martial arts challenge,” Silva said in an interview last year.
Now, three months on, and Silva is still very interested in a catchweight bout against McGregor, telling reporters ahead of his clash with ‘The Last Stylebender’ that he has spoke to Dana White about the idea.
White, however, will need a lot of convincing.
“Conor is a great name,” Silva said, per Joe.co.uk’s Darrah Murphy.
”First of all Conor challenged me, and I talked to Dana about that and he said ‘Come on Anderson….No, no, no’, and I said ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’.
”Why not? That’s a super-fight. I think it’s very interesting.”
Before there’s any further talk of a Silva-McGregor super-fight, however, Silva, the former middleweight champion, will first have to get past Adesanya at UFC 234. The highly anticipated PPV, which features a headlining middleweight championship bout between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum, takes place next month, Feb. 10 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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