Conor McGregor Hits Back at Floyd Mayweather's Taunts; ‘Over the Moon’ for Ronda Rousey

UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather continue to antagonize one another in the press, but McGregor certainly has love for another combat sports star.

On Wednesday evening, reporter Adam Glyn, best known for his work with TMZ Sports, spoke with the 29-year-old Irishman on the streets of New York. McGregor was in town for the seventh Best of Ireland Gala in the Big Apple, an annual event held to raise funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, the Dublin suburb “The Notorious” one hails from.

Mayweather defeated McGregor in August to move to 50-0 as a pro boxer, knocking him out in the 10th round of their “Money Fight.” This past Tuesday, Mayweather took to social media to dig at his former foe, posting him walking into an empty MMA cage and followed up the next day with a reference to “The Wire,” telling McGregor, “Come at the king, you best not miss.”

Come at the king, you best not miss... pic.twitter.com/uHx4SJngHx

— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) February 1, 2018

McGregor, naturally, was quick to fire back.

“He’s engaging. We’re engaging,” McGregor explained, as he teased Mayweather, Nate Diaz, Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov as potential opponents. “If it [is just for talk], and he doesn’t do it, it will follow him for the rest of his days that he did not do it. I said I would do it, I stepped up and I done it.”

The 155-pound kingpin did stop to get praise to another former UFC champion though in Ronda Rousey, who recently signed a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment.

“I’m delighted for her, absolutely over the moon for her,” McGregor said when asked about “Rowdy’s” immediate future. “She looked like she really enjoyed herself at [WWE Royal Rumble 2018] and I was very, very happy to see her. She’s a pioneer for the game and she’s came through it all and faced big wins and big, big losses and she came through it.”