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Floyd Mayweather says he’s can’t run from McGregor the way he does to other opponents, partly because the fans who were disappointed with the Pacquiao fight deserve some entertainment. He also mentioned the racist comments he thinks McGregor made.
“This can’t be a defensive fight… I have to go to him.”
Mayweather thinks McGregor referred to black people as monkeys, and that comment angered him. Transcript via MMAFighting.com:
“I just didn’t like when he called us monkeys,” Mayweather said. “I think that was totally disrespect. … He called us monkeys. I didn’t like it. It didn’t push a button to make me jump out of my character and go crazy, but I didn’t like it.”
The video he is referring to is when McGregor was asked about Rocky III, and responded that it was the movie with the “dancing monkeys in the gym.” It is not clear whether McGregor was referring to the all-black gym he trained at after his initial loss to Clubber Lang, or, also plausibly, the media circus in his own gym before that first fight. a scene his trainer called a zoo. That, in fact, seems more likely, because he mentioned the celebrity gym explicitly.
McGregor did, of course, refer to Mayweather as “boy” twice on the media tour, a term used to degrade black men, notably during the Jim Crowe era in the US. He’s referred to past opponents as “boy” as well, but when he attempted to address “the race thing” he came across extremely tone-deaf, a moment he later admitted “didn’t really hit right”.
Mayweather mentioned that the comment made him think of the heroes who fought for black people’s civil rights. He believes he will be representing that tradition August 26.
“I just thought about all our different leaders,” Mayweather said on ESPN. “Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. They went on the front line for me and my family and all my loved ones. Like I said before, this stuff still goes on. But I’m strong, I’m smart, patient. And come Aug. 26, I’ll be the same person — smart, strong, patient. And the same way he called us monkeys, we’re gonna see if he say that Aug. 26.”
Asked if that would be weighing on his mind the night of the fight, Mayweather said it wouldn’t but nonetheless, it is important to him.
“No different,” Mayweather said. “But this is for a cause. This is for the American people. This is for all the blacks around the world.”
Insomnia
Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov verbally agreed that November at Madison Square Garden sounds like a good place to finally fight for that interim lightweight title.
Let’s go @ufc
— khabib nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib) August 8, 2017
Tony can’t help digging at Khabib for the weight cutting debacle at UFC 209.
Hey Fathead @TeamKhabib It’s #TiramisuTuesday Make Sure To Eat Three 4 Me. I Hope USADA Doesn’t Test For Tiramisu,Tell Em Its Therapudic Use pic.twitter.com/IDpwkVBqco
— Tony Ferguson (@TonyFergusonXT) August 9, 2017
Donald Cerrone’s mindset drives his lifestyle
Costco has everything these days
Mayweather McGregor
Ship appears to be taking on water. $600,000,000 event now on Costco wholesale. @Chris120778 pic.twitter.com/Bkf0fI2OkQ
— Jim Boone (@kotickets) August 9, 2017
A little shade thrown at Fox Sports for pivoting to video and letting their journalists go, then turning around and quoting those same journalists.
Fixed it for you…. pic.twitter.com/8ABMQL2hop
— Mike Dyce (@mikedyce) August 8, 2017
Vasyl Lomachenko offered to spar McGregor today- that’s not a sparring session McGregor wants.
. @TheNotoriousMMA need another sparring partner to test your skills against? ……………….
— Hi-Tech Lomachenko (@VasylLomachenko) August 8, 2017
This was, perhaps, Anderson’s most awe-inspiring fight
UFC 101: Silva vs Griffin – 8 de agosto de 2009 / August 8, 2009 – This fight won the “Beatdown of the Year” award by Sherdog. pic.twitter.com/GgV2JEkZOd
— Anderson Silva (@SpiderAnderson) August 8, 2017
David Branch and Luke Rockhold had a back-and-forth on Twitter.
#Lucas @LukeRockhold on punk ass @arielhelwani show talkin that nonsense… Yeah aight. I’ll see you in my office I get the chicken pic.twitter.com/v1MyFK5UzF
— David Branch (@DavidcBranchMMA) August 7, 2017
wtf are u doin in barber chair w/ a bib a beanie, hiding behind those cheap ass sunglasses. U will do nothing
— Luke Rockhold (@LukeRockhold) August 8, 2017
Combat Sports this week.
Live Combat Sport Schedule: 8/8 – 8/13https://t.co/267rmU9KMd pic.twitter.com/LoqqN3rlwd
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) August 8, 2017
Slips, Rips, and KO Clips
Dana White congratulated the winners of the UFC contracts from tonight’s contender’s series
Congrats to Michael Rodriguez and Alex Perez on their UFC contracts!!! #ContenderSeries pic.twitter.com/EYtHryE7Jp
— Dana White (@danawhite) August 9, 2017
Beautiful anaconda choke
Congrats to Michael Rodriguez and Alex Perez on their UFC contracts!!! #ContenderSeries pic.twitter.com/Mi5ag7xSZK
— Dana White (@danawhite) August 9, 2017
“The Joker” Peter Petties fighting on tonight’s #ContenderSeries pic.twitter.com/W86Tzqgp4d
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) August 9, 2017
My team in New Zealand City Kickboxing. 2017 highlight reel so far and we are just getting warmed up! pic.twitter.com/kccCT9NIsr
— Dan Hangman Hooker (@danthehangman) August 8, 2017
This is a weird stoppage. It didn’t seem like this guy was out- it seems like he was acting like the hammerfists didn’t hurt him at all
Vyacheslav Vasilevsky def. Luis Sergio Melo Junior by 2R TKO – HL
(PLOTFORMA S-70 ) pic.twitter.com/mTyGAvELFV— Jolassanda (@Jolassanda) August 8, 2017
Szymon Bajor def. Alexander Stolyarov by 3R TKO
(PLOTFORMA S-70 ) pic.twitter.com/HtT945IEkb— Jolassanda (@Jolassanda) August 8, 2017
Virgil Zwicker KOs Nikolai Rachek in 1R – PLOTFORM S-70 pic.twitter.com/STnNlsdXbw
— Jolassanda (@Jolassanda) August 8, 2017
Rocky Marciano retired with a record of 49-0 (43 KO) because he broke his opponents in half #boxing #history #knockout pic.twitter.com/cU1Y2dw4uy
— Boxing History (@BoxingHistory) August 8, 2017
Good Reads
- I agree with Jon Jones’ teammate Frank Mir here- Stipe Miocic would put Jon Jones in a box six feet under.
- A look back at Anderson Silva’s spectacular win over Forrest Griffin, eight years ago today.
Random Land
My favourite subset of internet video is dogs that think their owners are drowning and this one is gold pic.twitter.com/Yiv2MMZHFt
— Alan White (@aljwhite) August 6, 2017
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