Floyd Mayweather recently challenged Conor McGregor to a 15 million # worth boxing match. Afterwards McGregor semt a message posting the following pic on instagram:
Mayweather is not deterred however and he just went onto ESPN discussing this match among many other things.
“I’m not just the face of boxing, I’m the face of mixed martial arts also. And I’m not an MMA fighter but I do support all contact sports. I haven’t seen an MMA fight in a while but anytime I see an MMA fighter that wants to take a picture with me, I’m gonna take a picture with them because they go through a lot. Fighters go through a lot to get to a certain level and MMA fighters go through a lot just like boxers go through a lot.”
Certainly the rumors of this bout have occupied fan imagination since early 2016.
“I want to tell everybody this, right now. Conor McGregor, do he want to fight? Absolutely not. I’m trying to see if he really want to fight but we can’t make the fight happen because he’s not his own boss. And I want the world to know this: just a fight, two fights ago, he was [knocks table twice] tapping out. He was just [knocks table twice] quitting.
“A lot of fighters – legendary fighters, fighters of today, MMA fighters – everybody says, ‘Floyd Mayweather do us wrong.’ Call me what you want to call me but I’m not a quitter. I don’t quit.”
And one thing’s for certain, Mayweather is certainly his own boss unlike McGregor who has the UFC overlord.
