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29th June 2017
12:55pm BST

During an AMA on Boards.ie, Kavanagh insisted that he would protest Bayless' presence as third man in the ring.
“Yes, I’ll be objecting to that,” Kavanagh wrote.
Bayless took charge of Mayweather's long-awaited clash with Manny Pacquiao in 2015 but Kavanagh has even suggested that he would be more comfortable with a mixed martial arts referee overseeing McGregor vs. Mayweather.
"If I'm speaking plainly, and I don't know how much trouble this will get me in, I think we're going to have a hard time finding a fair referee and a fair set of judges," Kavanagh recently told ESPN. "It will be very difficult for a 50- to 60-year-old boxing referee to not go into this bout a little bit biased.
"Actually, I'll throw this out there, I think [U.K.-based MMA referee] Marc Goddard should be the referee. We're already agreeing to boxing rules, boxing fight, boxing ring - everything is done boxing. So, how about an MMA referee that will understand the inside fighting that will go into this fight?"
UFC President Dana White has echoed Kavanagh's concerns about Bayless, tweeting the below last week.
https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/878226882604318720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joe.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fpotential-referee-for-mcgregor-vs-mayweather-has-pissed-off-dana-white-130846Explore more on these topics: