Right after Anthony Pettis’ resounding knockout win over Stephen Thompson a couple of weeks ago, Conor McGregor responded with an indirect challenge. Pettis already accepted, stating how it would be an “amazing” stylistic matchup, given their backgrounds as two known excellent strikers.
Pettis’ head coach Duke Roufus sees the same thing, and is now offering to go against McGregor’s best weapon.
“The fight honestly that’s trippin’ my trigger, Conor commended Anthony after the fight and then said, ‘Who wants it?’ You know what, we want it,” Roufus told MMA Fighting. “No disrespect, I like Conor a lot, I think he’s funny, he’s charismatic, obviously a great fighter.