Halfway around the world, (some) fighters are just excited as you about Mayweather vs. McGregor

SINGAPORE – For the fighters at this weekend’s event in Singapore, today was supposed to be all about promoting UFC Fight Night 111. But as the sun started to rise in Asia, everything changed.

It was about 6 a.m. in Singapore when news started to reach both the UFC fighters and employees involved in this weekend’s event: The long-rumored boxing fantasy fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is now reality.

MMAjunkie was on scene to cover Ultimate Media Day for UFC Fight Night 111, but the talk in every interview instantly shifted to Mayweather (49-0 boxing) vs. McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC).

Some fighters had a vested interest. After all, former UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos (25-9 MMA, 14-7 UFC), who fights welterweight Tarec Saffiedine (16-6 MMA, 2-3 UFC) at Saturday’s UFC Fight Pass-streamed event, was set to face McGregor in 2016 before an injury forced him to withdraw, which allowed Nate Diaz to step in and create one of MMA’s greatest rivalries.

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm (10-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC), who headlines UFC Fight Night 111 opposite Bethe Correia (10-2-1 MMA, 4-2-1 UFC), is also a former boxing world champion. And former UFC heavyweight champ Andrei Arlovski (25-14 MMA, 14-8 UFC), who co-headlines against Marcin Tybura (15-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC), also briefly considered a boxing career. All of them weighed in on the money fight, as did several other fighters MMA notables.

Check out their responses in the video above.

And for more on “The Money Fight: Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor,” check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.