Tag: McGregor vs. Mayweather World Tour

Earlier this week, ESPN released a report indicating that legendary former five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather owed the IRS tax money, which is ultimately why he came out of retirement to accept a fight with UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas.

And subsequently, this topic was brought up at yesterday’s (July 11, 2017) press conference between the two, which took place in Los Angeles.

Mayweather started it off by pulling out a check for $100 million to show that perhaps he doesn’t have any tax issues:

“Gimme that backpack. (Pulls out check from backpack) “Let me show you mutha f*ckers what a 100 million dollar fighter looks like,” Mayweather said. “Still got 100 million and I ain’t even touched this sh*t!”

McGregor then quickly took a jab at “Money”:

“Give that to the tax man!” McGregor responded.

The back-and-forth banter between the two stars was entertaining to say the least, although it should only heat up from here. McGregor’s microphone was actually turned off yesterday, but “Mayweather” continue to pour on the verbal onslaught:

“You’re right! I’m the IRS, and I’ma tax your ass,” Mayweather said.

“We knew I was the A-side, that’s why it say Mayweather first. We knew I was the A-side, that’s why this b*tch had to come to the boxing ring,” he added.

“He look good for a seven figure fighter, he look good for a eight figure fighter, but mutha f*cker I’m a nine figure fighter. And y’all know what? This b*tch made three million dollars his last fight! Well we know that’s training camp money for me!” Mayweather concluded.

Check out the full exchange below courtesy of MMAFighting.com:

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There were a myriad of newsworthy headlines at today’s Mayweather vs. McGregor world tour kickoff presser from Los Angeles, ranging from McGregor predicting an early knockout and calling Mayweather scared of MMA to “Money” stating he would fight the ‘Notorious’ Irishman with only four-ounce gloves on.

But more drama continued to develop behind the scenes, and as predicted for a boxing mega-match of this magnitude, and one of the more interesting ones came when Mayweather’s father Floyd Sr. crashed McGregor’s media scrum immediately after the media conference.

Apparently, Mayweather Sr. had enough of McGregor’s mouth after they were jawing during the staredown ending the press conference, something McGregor addressed during his scrum:

“The old man came — and I don’t know who’s who, I got confused — but the old man came and he was saying some stuff,” McGregor said regarding his stare down with Mayweather Jr. “So whatever, I don’t know.”

This got the elder Mayweather’s attention, and he ran onto the interview’s filming to call out his son’s current foe. Check it out courtesy of MMA Fighting:

Mayweather Sr. was irate, offering a straight threat to bludgeon McGregor outside of the ring before his son had a chance to:

“Like what, son?” Mayweather Sr. shouted. “I will beat your ass, I will beat your ass.”

So after a massively awaited event, where the hype and spectacle of this so-called ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ bout was set on a course headed for an out-of-control fever pitch as the late summer day draws near, many are actually giving Mayweather the first round in the war of words between combat sports’ two biggest names. And now Mayweather’s father wants to throw down with the UFC’s front man as well.

Something tells me he’ll be answering back in force at tomorrow’s second press conference tour stop in Toronto.

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