Midnight Mania! Mayweather says he has to go after McGregor, “this is for all the blacks around the world”

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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

“You do the things you have do to live the life you want to live”

A post shared by Donald Cerrone (@cowboycerrone) on Aug 8, 2017 at 8:04pm PDT

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


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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

Hit my son up if y’all need a haircut

A post shared by Derrick Lewis (@thebeastufc) on Aug 8, 2017 at 1:37pm PDT

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Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

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.

Tony can’t help digging at Khabib for the weight cutting debacle at UFC 209.

Donald Cerrone’s mindset drives his lifestyle

“You do the things you have do to live the life you want to live”

A post shared by Donald Cerrone (@cowboycerrone) on

Costco has everything these days

A little shade thrown at Fox Sports for pivoting to video and letting their journalists go, then turning around and quoting those same journalists.

Vasyl Lomachenko offered to spar McGregor today- that’s not a sparring session McGregor wants.

This was, perhaps, Anderson’s most awe-inspiring fight

David Branch and Luke Rockhold had a back-and-forth on Twitter.

Combat Sports this week.


Slips, Rips, and KO Clips

Dana White congratulated the winners of the UFC contracts from tonight’s contender’s series

Beautiful anaconda choke

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


Good Reads


Random Land

Hit my son up if y’all need a haircut

A post shared by Derrick Lewis (@thebeastufc) on

Stay woke, Maniacs! Follow me on Twitter @Vorpality