“Any day of the week,” wrote Conor Benn on social media on Tuesday, alongside a mock fight poster advertising a 2027 showdown with Conor McGregor.
Pour scorn on it all you want, but Benn-McGregor makes sense for several million reasons.
And given the TKO/Zuffa/UFC marriage, it makes sense on several levels beyond the money, too.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it is the fight to save Zuffa Boxing, but it is precisely the type of attraction that could open doors, draw new audiences and provide a platform from which a myriad of other shows and fights could be built.
