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Tweet of the day: Vasyl Lomachenko offers to be sparring partner for Conor McGregor

UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor is just 17 days away from his highly-anticipated pro boxing debut against none other than Floyd Mayweather. Paulie Malignaggi was brought in as a sparring partner, but that has since developed into its own soap opera, and Malignaggi has since left the McGregor camp.

Aware of the news, WBO junior lightweight (130 lbs) champion Vasyl Lomachenko (9-1, 7 KOs) took to Twitter on Tuesday and offered McGregor the opportunity to spar with him.

This isn’t the first time Lomachenko has called out McGregor. Earlier in the year and before McGregor vs.