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Conor McGregor talks up boxing return against world champion Canelo Alvarez: ‘No f*cking problem’

Former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor has talked up the possibility of scoring a return to professional boxing in the future – claiming current undisputed world champion, Canelo Alvarez is “waning”, as well as offering to fight him.

McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion under the promotion’s banner, has been sidelined from active competition since fracturing his left tibia and fibula en route to a doctor’s stoppage TKO loss against Dustin Poirier in July 2021.

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As for Canelo, the undisputed super middleweight champion most recently turned in a unanimous decision win over British challenger, John Ryder in a Mexico homecoming at the beginning of this month.