Rory McIlroy is a huge fight fan (Picture: Getty)

Rory McIlroy is a massive Conor McGregor fan, but has admitted he worries the Irishman’s super-fight with Floyd Mayweather may be ‘fixed’.

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McGregor will take on the undefeated Mayweather in Las Vegas this Saturday in what is expected to be the biggest fight ever in combat sports history.

On paper it is a match-up that can only go one way, but McGregor’s flair and confidence has helped sell the fight as a legitimate contest to most observers.

McIlroy is a big fight fan and has met McGregor numerous times at UFC events and although he is in awe of McGregor’s mindset, he mused that he and Mayweather could be taking the public for a ride.




‘Certainly that’s all I’ve done is follow the build up to this thing,’ McIlroy told reporters at the FedExCup Playoffs.

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‘Now that I’m off Twitter and social media, all I do is watch YouTube videos of Conor McGregor.

‘I’m intrigued. He talks a good game. If you just listen to his press conferences and what he says, you would think that this guy, he’s the one with the 50-0 boxing record. It’s amazing.

‘I’m a big admirer of him. He talks about visualization and the law of attraction and all this stuff that he believes in it and he vocalizes it, and he has the courage to say what he thinks.

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‘I’m a believer in that stuff, and I’m a big advocate of that. And some of the stuff he does wouldn’t be my cup of tea, but he believes 100 percent in himself and he believes he’s going to go out there on Saturday night and shock the world.

‘I’m interested just to see how it all plays out, but I just fear that they do all this trash-talking and they go behind the scenes and they are having a laugh and thinking: I can’t believe we are talking all this public for a ride.

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‘We are all buying into it and they are like, can you believe these people believe this. I just hope it doesn’t turn into it and I hope it’s not in any way fixed.

‘It’s amazing, like we were talking about, imagine McGregor knocks him out in the first couple of rounds. They would get even more for the rematch.

‘The rematch would be even bigger. So it’s just – I just don’t know what that zero on Mayweather’s record is worth, and that’s the thing. That’s his legacy. If he goes down and lies down for ten seconds at some point in that, you know, is that worth making an extra few 100 million? That’s sort of up to him.’

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