Gunnar Nelson is a close friend and training partner of UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
So when Nelson gets online and sees all the hype and talk about a potential McGregor-Floyd Mayweather contest, he isn’t buying it.
“They’re definitely hyping it up, both of them,” said Nelson, during a recent interview with Submission Radio. “Both of them are taking part in it. So I think they will definitely like to build it up, build up the money and make it happen at some point, but I don’t know how it works with the UFC and the contracts. Like, they’d have to make some deal with them and include them somehow, cause most of us know how the UFC deals are and you can’t really just go off and do a super-fight with Floyd Mayweather if you’re signed with the UFC. But yeah, we’ll definitely see how things go. I definitely don’t think it’s gonna happen September or whenever they said.
“And I don’t think (the fight happens on) New Year’s either. They’re just putting dates and stuff like that (because) it will just hype the whole thing and just keep hyping until they will get a few hundred million or whatever.”
The 27-year-old Nelson (15-2-1) got back in the win column this past May with a second round submission of Albert Tumenov at UFC Fight Night 87. He noted in the interview that he is looking at September or October for a return to action.
“Yeah I’d like to return this fall. This summer I’m gonna spend a lot of time with my boy now,” he said. “His Mum is going to go abroad; she’s doing some projects in Berlin. So I will be spending a lot of time with him this summer. So I’d like maybe this fall. I don’t know exactly what cards are on, but I would be aiming for a little summer vacation or spend some time here (in Iceland). I’m always training”
