With the promotional storm for their highly anticipated boxing match at times both exhilarating and cringe-worthy throughout this week’s press conference world tour, Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor finally ended their exhausting media spectacle with the fourth and final stop in London, England today. The tour-ending presser had all the expected lines, like McGregor continuing […]
With the promotional storm for their highly anticipated boxing match at times both exhilarating and cringe-worthy throughout this week’s press conference world tour, Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor finally ended their exhausting media spectacle with the fourth and final stop in London, England today.
Through this week’s four-city, three-country world tour, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has gained a ton of criticism in the media for his supposedly racist trash talk against Floyd Mayweather heading into their awaited August 26 showdown from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The Irish megastar drew heat for calling Mayweather ‘boy’ and telling […]
Through this week’s four-city, three-country world tour, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has gained a ton of criticism in the media for his supposedly racist trash talk against Floyd Mayweather heading into their awaited August 26 showdown from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The Irish megastar drew heat for calling Mayweather ‘boy’ and telling him to dance, but never was that more apparent than it was at yesterday’s third stop in Brooklyn, New York, when he responded to the allegations by referencing the size of his genitals and then putting on a air-humping display for his female African-American fans. Not his finest moment to say the least, and even Mayweather spoke out against the behavior after initially saying he would brush it off.
But it was “Money” who blurted out at the off-color remarks at today’s (Fri., July 14, 2017) final world tour press conference in London. Towards the end of his press segment containing an otherworldly percentage of profanity, Mayweather made the ill-advised decision to blurt out a homophobic slur as well.
It all started when Mayweather revealed a supposed gameplan he had with UFC President Dana White to use foreign fighters to make big money, something White has obviously done to perfection with “The Notorious”:
“Keep pimpin’ this bitch. 21 years ago, me and you had a gameplan. We the smart ones when it’s all said and done. Yeah, we gonna take these foreign fighters, and we know how to use ‘em.
“We some smart Americans, and you out here runnin’ with a quitter? But I forget; you the pimp, and this yo’ ho.”
Mayweather disrespected McGregor by offering his belief that he was far from a worthy opponent after his lengthy undefeated reign, and he then mocked McGregor’s timepiece compared to his lavishly expensive one. But that’s when things got unnecessary, as Mayweather followed in McGregor’s shoes with an uncalled-for name:
“I’m undefeated, 21-year run, and this all y’all got to offer? You know what, this a microwave meal, I’m a home-cooked meal that settle in on your stomach. Microwave meal, that’s what you are, I’m a home-cooked meal. With your cheap-ass watch on, step your game up. (Points to his watch) $1.4 million, bitch. Shut up, shut up. Tell me what the UFC bought you? Shut the fuck up, they ain’t bought you shit bitch.”
“We gonna talk about this pussy, You punk, you faggot, you hoe!”
Mayweather then closed by saying he would be McGregor’s “teacher” on August 26:
“You had your turn. You the fuckin’ student, I’m the teacher. August 26, I take you to school.”
And not to be outdone, McGregor hearkened back to a hilarious quote from the Toronto presser by making fun of Mayweather’s backpack:
“Make sure to bring your schoolbag.”
So the world tour press conferences are in the books, and although the attention bounced back a bit after yesterday’s dud in Brooklyn, the continued off-color slurs of both men will most likely mean that many are glad the promotional sandstorm is over – even if this is legitimately one of the biggest fights of all-time.
What is your opinion? Did Mayweather and MCGregor take it too far, or are they simply hyping up the super fight?
Following an absolute dud of a press conference in Brooklyn, New York the day after Conor MCGregor and Floyd Mayweather blew the roof off of the Toronto event, this week’s Mayweather vs. McGregor world tour will conclude today with the final press conference from London, England. It’s also the 29th birthday for Ireland’s favorite son […]
Following an absolute dud of a press conference in Brooklyn, New York the day after Conor MCGregor and Floyd Mayweather blew the roof off of the Toronto event, this week’s Mayweather vs. McGregor world tour will conclude today with the final press conference from London, England.
It’s also the 29th birthday for Ireland’s favorite son “The Notorious,” so he’s expected to be looking for a big comeback from his uninspired performance from yesterday in front of his legions of European fans.
That should make for an exciting ending to the promotional tour for one of – if not the – most hyped combat sports bouts of all-time. Watch it unfold beginning at 2:00 p.m. EST (we hope) via SHOWTIME Sports right here:
Yesterday’s third world tour stop in New York for August 26’s over-the-top Mayweather vs. McGregor was a disappointing letdown from Wednesday’s buzzing Toronto presser, and it’s safe to say Conor McGregor did himself little favors in Brooklyn after coming out looking like a megastar North of the Border. Much of that stemmed from his response […]
Yesterday’s third world tour stop in New York for August 26’s over-the-top Mayweather vs. McGregor was a disappointing letdown from Wednesday’s buzzing Toronto presser, and it’s safe to say Conor McGregor did himself little favors in Brooklyn after coming out looking like a megastar North of the Border.
Much of that stemmed from his response to allegations of racism earlier in the week when he called Mayweather ‘boy’ and told him to ‘dance for him,’ but the UFC front man took things to an all-new – and many believe disgusting – level yesterday in responding to the accusations.
Instead of quiet the storm, McGregor simply got vulgar with repeated sex references:
“Let’s address the race,” McGregor said. “A lot of media seem to be saying I’m against black people. That’s absolutely f*cking ridiculous! Do they not know I’m half black? Yeah, I’m half black from the belly-button down! And just to show that’s squashed, here’s a little present for my beautiful, black, female fans (humps air slowly).”
Perhaps it was in the name of gamesmanship and promotion, two things McGregor obviously ranks towards the top of the world at, namely when he’s attempting to hype up what will most likely be his biggest fight of all-time. But the words were a microcosm of the entire New York press conference, a deflating show of pompous machismo that was doomed before it began after “The Notorious” left fans waiting for nearly two hours.
He downplayed the comments during his post-press conference media scrum as well, insisting he had no prejudice against his opponent or anyone else solely based on race:
“That doesn’t sit well with me,” said McGregor. “I’m very multi-cultural and a very multi-cultured individual, and I don’t have any ill feelings toward any – I don’t even see color. I just wanted to say something and have a little bit of fun with it.
“I just wanted to play with it and address it in my own little way. It’s stupid, and it’s ridiculous is basically what I was getting at.”
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Regardless of his intentions, his comments are beginning to cross the line, so much so that Mayweather began to change his tune from earlier in the week when he just planned to shrug McGregor’s supposed racism off. Now, the legendary boxer believes the Irishman’s words are becoming offensive to the female members of his family, and it’s losing him a lot of fans in his own post-presser segment via MMA Junkie:
“This is an event where two fighters are competing against one another, but saying a lot of racist things like today toward black women,” Mayweather said. “I have two black daughters, a black mother, of course I’m a black man.
“He’s crossing the line, but I can’t really focus on that right now. I’m here to do a job, and my job is to go out there and entertain. But he’s losing a lot of fans by doing that.”
Mayweather continued on about the discrimination courtesy of MMA Fighting, adding that he also said some things he should not have when he was a younger man like McGregor, believing that the UFC champion will regret the things he did when he gets older:
“Disrespecting my daughter, disrespecting the mother of my daughter, disrespecting black women, calling black people monkeys is totally disrespectful. I have a diverse team. A diverse staff. And when I was young, I may have said some things I shouldn’t have said because I was young. But you live, you learn and you don’t say those things when you get to a certain age because it’s all about growth and maturity.
“Today, he came out today and did it again…I guess when he gets older he’ll look back and say I probably shouldn’t have said that,” Mayweather said.
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:
After a two-hour wait from its original 6:30 p.m EST start time left fans restless, today’s (Thurs., July 13, 2017) third press conference from Brooklyn could legitimately be considered a letdown compared to the fireworks that broke out at yesterday’s presser in Toronto. Both fighters weren’t exactly on top of their trash-talking game on the […]
After a two-hour wait from its original 6:30 p.m EST start time left fans restless, today’s (Thurs., July 13, 2017) third press conference from Brooklyn could legitimately be considered a letdown compared to the fireworks that broke out at yesterday’s presser in Toronto.
Both fighters weren’t exactly on top of their trash-talking game on the third leg, and perhaps that’s to be expected after two back-to-back events in Los Angeles and Toronto this week. But this is a world tour for the supposed biggest fight of all-time, so there’s little room for error amongst the two biggest personalities in combat sports, and they just didn’t deliver up to their potential after an excruciating wait today.
One of the few bright moments of the presser was when “Money” showered McGregor with a whole bunch of his namesake, to which “The Notorious” responded that the money he was being doused with all one-dollar bills, something that will certainly fuel the fire for his recent suggestion that Mayweather owes a large sum of money.
Check out the strange scene courtesy of the UFC on Twitter:
