Former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor MacGregor intends to fight by the rules of mixed martial arts with the Japanese fighter and kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa.
In the last fight Natsukawa in Saitama, Japan, met with the former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather knocked Nasukawa down three times in the first round, after which the corner of the Japanese decided not to continue the meeting. The match had an exhibition character.
“I wish to go to Tokyo to face Tenshin Nasukawa in a Mixed Martial Arts exhibition bout. Before this summer. Please arrange this, this instant. Yours sincerely, the champ,” wrote MacGregor on Twitter.