That’s what Mayweather says, at least: “I tried to make the fight happen between me and Conor McGregor,” Mayweather told FightHype.com (via ESPN). “We wasn’t able to make the fight happen, so we must move on.”
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“I feel honored to be the biggest name in MMA and in boxing and I don’t even compete no more.”
It’d be a boxing match, for the record.
McGregor has wanted a piece of Mayweather, who retired in September, for quite some time. He recently said Mayweather “running around the Showtime offices begging for those executives to come up with $100 million cash for me.” The implication there is that McGregor would win and take the entire purse.
Was a fight ever all that likely? Not at all. Is it any less likely today than it was last week? Nope. And if Mayweather-Pacquiao happened, underwhelming as it was, you can’t rule Mayweather-McGregor out, either.
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McGregor summed up the rationale himself in May: ““Who else can he fight? (If) he fights someone else in the boxing realm, all of a sudden the pay goes from $100 million to $15 million … He needs me, I don’t need him. That’s the truth of it. If he wants to talk we can talk, but it’s me who’s in control here.”
Whether it should happen is another question.
