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.