There’s never a shortage of big name opponents when you’re name is Conor McGregor.
“The Notorious” is set to take on lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in what is being billed as one of the biggest fights in MMA history at UFC 229 this Saturday, but a legend of the game is waiting in the wings should McGregor seek to continue his history-making ways.
On a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, McGregor expressed interest in someday fighting middleweight great Anderson Silva. Those comments must have made their way to “The Spider”, because he acknowledged being interested in the challenge via Instagram:
“It would be an honor to test myself with Conor McGregor,” Silva wrote in Portuguese (translation via MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz).