Written by Jed Meshew at MMAFighting.com
These days, any time Conor McGregor is in the news, Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s name ends up not being far behind.
On Saturday, Conor McGregor knocked out Eddie Alvarez to claim his second UFC championship. It was a historic feat that stirred up questions about what would be next for the two division champion; it also sparked a war of words with the former pound-for-pound boxing king.
When Mayweather was asked his opinion on McGregor, he dismissed the Irish superstar as merely “piggybacking” off the Mayweather name, comparing McGregor to an ant and himself to an elephant. McGregor responded by saying Mayweather could “say it to my face.” Then, Tuesday night, per TMZ, McGregor took over a DJ booth at a nightclub in New York City and took another shot at “Money” Mayweather.
“Floyd’s not ready for this. Much respect to Floyd. He’s a solid businessman. What he’s been able to do, he’s a f*cking animal at what he’s been able to do. [But] as far as real fighting – true, pure unarmed combat – Floyd don’t want none of this. He does not want none of this. He wants it under boxing rules. He wants a boxing match. He doesn’t want a fight.
“Give Floyd a shout; tell him I’m coming. Tell him to run around Showtime offices. I want $100 million to fight him under boxing rules because he’s afraid of a real fight.”
It’s a familiar refrain for McGregor who said the same thing back in August in the lead up to his rematch with Nate Diaz and has been saying substantively similar things since the fight was first rumored early this year. Mayweather always maintained that the match would have to be held under boxing rules and though McGregor never shied away from that aspect, he did take shots at Mayweather for not wanting to have a “real fight.”
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