President Donald Trump’s inauguration provided an unusual setting for UFC superstar Conor McGregor to challenge Logan and Jake Paul to a fight. McGregor recently tweeted that he had accepted Logan Paul box in India at some point in the future, and pressed him on that issue in Washington D.C.
While the Paul brothers waited on the bus that would take them to the inauguration, McGregor approached them and called Logan immediately after shaking his hand. Video of the interaction was included in a vlog posted to Logan’s YouTube page.
“Everything is sweet here,” McGregor said. “Everything is sweet here. You kept your mouth shut, you did. I thought you were going to start the fight. You were so quiet.”
McGregor accused Paul of making excuses, such as pointing out that the Irish fighter has a contract with the UFC. McGregor responded with the suggestion that Paul is under wwe‘s contractual control.
“You’re giving all this, ‘Dana this, Dana that,'” McGregor said. “You’re fucking controlled by the wwe too, bro.”
Video from inside the bus shows McGregor getting angry at the Paul brothers while sitting directly behind them and next to Paul’s mother. McGregor said he would love to have a chance with “you two and KSI.”
McGregor has been criticizing the Paul brothers for a while now, but an actual fight seems like a long shot. Jake Paul has said he would only fight McGregor if the UFC and Dana White were involved in the negotiations.
Logan Paul, a new father, has a part-time role in wwe and has made comments about being “retired” from boxing. Furthermore, McGregor has developed a history of challenging other fighters without an actual fight having taken place.