Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said former President of the United States Barack Obama could attend his August 26 fight against Conor McGregor.
In an interview with TMZ on the press tour ahead of their bout next month, Mayweather spoke highly of the audience…
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said former President of the United States Barack Obama could attend his August 26 fight against ConorMcGregor.
In an interview with TMZ on the press tour ahead of their bout next month, Mayweather spoke highly of the audience he’s expecting the matchup to attract, which included more than one presidential alumni:
He said: “Barack Obama may be there. Donald Trump may be there. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a star-studded event.”
UFC President Dana Whiterecently indicatedincumbent U.S. President Trump could be on the guest list for the megafight and was “100 per cent interested” but added he may not attend as he “feels like he ruins events”:
The level of security required for the boxing bout is already likely to be rigorous, but any amount of red tape would be increased substantially if a president—either current or former—was part of proceedings.
Mayweather attended Trump’s inauguration in January, perHayley MillerofHuffington Post, but it seems unlikely the leader of the free world will repay the favour in Las Vegas next month.
The fight between McGregor and Mayweather is likely to attract many celebrities.
It would almost require a president’s salary to afford entry, too, considering ringside tickets are selling for $10,000 (£7,700) at the T-Mobile Arena, perMMA Junkie.
Obama and his family have been granted more freedom in his personal life since leaving the Oval Office, and the 44th President of the United States could feature among what will inevitably be a who’s who of the world’s biggest names,according to Mayweather.
In hindsight, maybe a four-city press tour wasn’t such a great idea.
Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor hit the Big Apple on Thursday for a big to-do designed to build anticipation for their massive August 26 boxing match. It was a repeat performance …
In hindsight, maybe a four-city press tour wasn’t such a great idea.
Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor hit the Big Apple on Thursday for a big to-do designed to build anticipation for their massive August 26 boxing match. It was a repeat performance of the previous two days in name only. In literally every other way, it was worse.
The first two press conferences in Los Angeles and Toronto created a ton of interest in the fight. You could sense non-believers starting to reach for their wallets in preparation of turning $100 over to Mayweather and McGregor.
The Brooklyn variation? It was more like Mayweather and McGregor setting all of that money on fire, then dumping the still-hot embers back on the rest of us.
Yes, it was that bad. In every way imaginable. It is bad enough that Mayweather’s new idea of fight promotion consists of cursing and a whole lot of nothing else. It is bad enough that the whole thing started two hours late, leaving thousands of waiting fans irate.
But McGregor’s earlier performance on the microphone was bad enough that everything else can be overlooked.
McGregor, clad in a fur coat, ugly leggings and no shirt, decided to address critics who accused him of racism after the Los Angeles tour stop when he kept telling Mayweather to “Dance for me, boy.” He could’ve used this time to explain what he meant. He could’ve ignored the chatter altogether in hopes of not fanning the flames. He could’ve apologized for the insensitive remark even if he didn’t mean to offend.
Instead, he doused the flames in petrol.
“Let me address race. A lot of people have me saying I’m against black people. That’s absolutely ridiculous,” McGregor said. “Do they not know I’m half-black? I’m half-black from the belly button down.”
Perhaps McGregor felt this stunning remark didn’t get his point across. Maybe the crowd wasn’t laughing enough for his liking.
(They weren’t laughing at all, in fact.)
Either way, McGregor unfortunately decided to keep talking. He noted he had a present for his black female fans in the audience, and then started dry-humping the air.
UFC President Dana White expressed his own NSFW displeasure with the event:
McGregor said afterward that he was only trying to have a little bit of fun with the critics who accused him of making racist comments. It is time someone told him that having fun with racism isn’t actually a real thing. He also doesn’t get to decide what’s fun and what isn’t.
And it’s time to cancel this whole press tour altogether.
Because at this point, it’s doing more harm than good. There’s another stop scheduled for London. It was the most anticipated stop on the tour for anyone who has seen a prior McGregor press conference in Ireland or the United Kingdom. The fans will be rabid and they will be festive, and they’ll sing songs about McGregor and generally make it a must-see.
They have a long flight to England before stepping on that stage. I’d like to think both men will take the time to reflect on the damage they’ve already caused to their own bottom line, and to figure out how to recover from it.
But given how much they deteriorated after two days, it might not be the best idea to give either of them a live microphone.
Forget about beating the all-time pay-per-view record by drawing in a massive audience of casual fans from around the world.
One more performance like Thursday, and the only people who stick around to actually buy the fight will be UFC fans.
The press conferences with Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor have already featured plenty of trash talk, but Mayweather believes his opponent crossed the line Thursday.
“He totally disrespected my daughter. He disrespected the mother of my daughter. …
The press conferences with Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor have already featured plenty of trash talk, but Mayweather believes his opponent crossed the line Thursday.
“He totally disrespected my daughter. He disrespected the mother of my daughter. He disrespected black women. He called black people monkeys,” Mayweather complained, via MMAFighting.com. (Warning: video contains NSFW language.)
“You can’t do that,” he later continued. “Conor McGregor, you cannot disrespect black women. You can’t disrespect black people, period. We’ve been through a lot.”
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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There were few true highlights to write home about at tonight’s third stop on the Mayweather vs. McGregor press conference world tour from Brooklyn, New York. Fans were forced to wait two hours for either star athlete to show up, and when they did, the one-liners and trash talk just didn’t match up to yesterday’s […]
There were few true highlights to write home about at tonight’s third stop on the Mayweather vs. McGregor press conference world tour from Brooklyn, New York.
Fans were forced to wait two hours for either star athlete to show up, and when they did, the one-liners and trash talk just didn’t match up to yesterday’s electrifying Toronto presser, although it admittedly had an impossible bar set up for New York.
That didn’t mean there weren’t a few entertaining moments, such as when Mayweather showered McGregor in cash money and “The Notorious” addressing recent allegations of racism against him, but possibly the most oddball and out-of-the-blue moment when “Money” had his sizable entourage ‘form Voltron’ around McGregor.
If you don’t know what forming Voltron is (and if you’re used to having the interwebs your whole life, you probably don’t), it was an 80s cartoon show where large robots formed the limbs of a much greater whole to form a super-powerful robot.
Yep, Mayweather did that around Conor McGregor. In 2017. Check it out right here:
It appears as though Conor McGregor’s combat sports career is far from over once he concludes his battle with Floyd Mayweather Jr. next month. The UFC lightweight champion hasn’t competed inside the Octagon since November of 2016 when he defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the first dual-weight champion in promotion history. Now, “The Notorious One” […]
It appears as though Conor McGregor’s combat sports career is far from over once he concludes his battle with Floyd Mayweather Jr. next month.
The UFC lightweight champion hasn’t competed inside the Octagon since November of 2016 when he defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the first dual-weight champion in promotion history. Now, “The Notorious One” is set to make his professional boxing debut against, arguably, the greatest of all time in Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Since this past Tuesday, Mayweather and McGregor have been on a four stop World Tour to promote their upcoming bout, and the trash talk between the two brash rivals has been relentless. With the young Irishman set to make the biggest payday of his fighting career, however, many are left wondering if we’ll ever see McGregor fight again once he wraps things up with “Money.”
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During the post-presser media scrum, “Mystic Mac” addressed these concerns and claimed that he will plans on fighting again after his August 26th date, and will keep his options wide open – whether that means competing in mixed martial arts (MMA) or boxing:
“I’ll buy a couple of more things, flash them around, just enjoy life for a little bit,” McGregor said. “But, keep doing what I’m doing. You have to understand, I’m only 28. I’m actually 29 tomorrow, my birthday is tomorrow. I’m only a young man. I’m fairly untouched, if you look through my career. For such a dangerous game, I’m not – you know I haven’t gone through big big wars. I’ve gone through some but not compared to others in the game. So I’m very young in my career.
“When I sleep Floyd, I will certainly look – I will keep an eye on the boxing game. 100 percent I’ll keep my eye on news there – all it will do for me is it’ll give me more options. My options will stay open. I may box, I may continue to fight in the UFC, but I certainly will do both. Which one next, all that type of stuff I don’t know. But I certainly will continue to do both.”
Mayweather vs. McGregor goes down live on Showtime pay-per-view (PPV) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada next month (Sat. August 26, 2017).
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor entered the third day of their world press tour Thursday to hype up their Aug. 26 superfight at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena.
Having already hit Los Angeles and Toronto, Mayweather and McGregor continued eastw…
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor entered the third day of their world press tour Thursday to hype up their Aug. 26 superfight at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena.
Having already hit Los Angeles and Toronto, Mayweather and McGregor continued eastward to occupy Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The pair didn’t disappoint in their first two stops, with MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani scoring the first day in favor of Mayweather and the second for McGregor.
After watching Wednesday’s event, Fox Sports’ Skip Bayless and MMAjunkie’s Chamatkar Sandhu thought the two stars have already used their best stuff:
Before they traded verbal jabs, McGregor earned a knockout in the fashion category. Showtime Boxing showed him entering Barclays Center:
Rather than McGregor, the Brooklyn crowded landed the first blow on Mayweather, referencing the back taxes he owes the federal government. Helwani shared a clip of the fans chanting “pay your taxes” at the unbeaten boxer:
At one point, Mayweather showered a seated McGregor with dollar bills after calling him a stripper. The stunt made the crowd hassle Mayweather even more about his taxes, according to Sports Illustrated‘s Greg Bishop.
During his time on the microphone, McGregor added to a controversy he created when he told Mayweather to “dance for me, boy” during their stops in Los Angeles and Toronto, per Yahoo Sports’ Ryan McKinnell. Some saw the remark as racially insensitive, and McGregor seemed to dig himself in a deeper hole Thursday.
He denied that he was racist and told the crowd he’s half-black.
“Do they not know I’m half black?” McGregor said, per MMAFighting.com. “I’m half-black from the belly button down.”
He also said he has “a present for my beautiful, black female fans” in Barclays Center before thrusting his hips in a suggestive manner, according to Mike Coppinger of The Ring Magazine.
Speaking to reporters after Thursday’s event, McGregor offered a more nuanced response to the story, per Bleacher Report’s Alex Larsen:
Mayweather and McGregor will head to their final stop on their world tour Friday in London at SSE Arena.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said former President of the United States Barack Obama could attend his August 26 fight against Conor McGregor.