UFC Prez Dana White Sure Makes it Sound Like McGregor vs Mayweather Will Happen Soon
For a fight that hasn’t been made official, it sounds like the much-rumored superfight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather is officially going to happen.
For a fight that hasn’t been made official, it sounds like the much-rumored superfight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather is officially going to happen.
UFC President Dana White has suddenly become a “glass half full” guy when it comes to a potential future matchup between Floyd Mayweather and Conor MacGregor.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Retired unbeaten boxing champion Floyd Mayweather says that when it comes to a possible big-money fight with Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor, he is “out of retirement.”
So, I believe I started my breakdown of a possible Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather boxing matchup by calling it a no good, very bad situation for the UFC. Their most prized, visible, and lucrative fighter would be embarrassed on the largest PPV event in recorded human history, resulting in a massive pay day for McGregor and tremendous loss of prestige for the UFC.
Los Angeles (AFP) – The possibility of a duel between boxer Floyd Mayweather and mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor got another boost as Ultimate Fighting Championship boss Dana White said he’d pay each $25 million to meet.
Undefeated boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants to jump back in the ring, this time to face UFC Champion Conor McGregor, and he’s willing to offer McGregor a $15 million payday to accept the challenge.
A heated social media battle between singer Chris Brown and rapper Soulja Boy will apparently now be settled in a reported $1 million celebrity boxing match.
Over half of the people who made it onto Forbes’ list of “America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40,” released in early December, live in California’s Bay Area.
Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. seemed particularly impressed by how both Donald Trump and Floyd Mayweather out-thought the opponents in their most recent competitions.
“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, sometimes called “The Most Hated Man in America” for raising the price of life-saving AIDS drug Daraprim by over 5,000%, is auctioning off an opportunity for someone to punch or slap him in the face.
Raking in $88 million, Real Madrid soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo earned more than any other professional athlete in 2016.
Muhammad Ali fought a football player, hockey goon, and professional wrestlers. Floyd Mayweather looks to fight a mixed-martial arts champion.
Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Leonard, ad Muhammad Ali couldn’t stay retired. Floyd Mayweather looks like he lost in his bid to remain out of the ring, too.
Adrien Broner knocked out Ashley Theophane and then called out his promoter Floyd Mayweather for an encore.
Floyd Mayweather, the highest paid prize fighter in history, charges that “racism still exists in the sport of boxing” in a new interview.
Ronda Rousey finds consolation in defeat from a strange source: Floyd Mayweather.
Oscar De La Hoya says it’s nice to say goodbye to Floyd Mayweather in a scathing career assessment in Playboy.
We like our boxers punch drunk, impoverished, and ugly. That’s why we hate Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather lead all of the worlds athletes on the 2015 Forbes list of top moneymakers with annual earnings of $300 million.
Ronda Rousey stars in Entourage. Floyd Mayweather travels in an entourage. Beyond this, never the twain shall meet.
Floyd Mayweather, after earning at least a $180 million paycheck that some speculate may balloon to $400 million for his boxing match with Manny Pacquiao, just enjoyed a four-day gambling binge that crammed his wallet with another $477,000.
Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather may not have lived up to the hype in the ring. It did on the accountant’s ledger.
Floyd Mayweather is mired in yet another court case as his ex-girlfriend has just filed a defamation lawsuit against him over his recent public comments about an incident of domestic violence from 2010.
Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia took fifteen minutes out of an address to commemorate the opening of a road to condemn American boxing judges and cry foul over Manny Pacquiao’s defeat at the hands of Floyd Mayweather this past weekend, insisting he would not honor a technically illegal bet he made on the fight because it was rigged.
Fans slam athletes who sit with injuries. Now two fight fans sue Manny Pacquiao for performing with an injury.
During Tuesday’s “First Take” on ESPN2, co-host Skip Bayless released a message received by fellow co-host and Floyd Mayweather fan Stephen A. Smith in response to their previous segment discussing Manny Pacquiao’s shoulder injury, which the Pacquiao camp says happened
hree million people paid for boxing. The cable companies gave them “Dancing with the Stars” instead. One needn’t work in a laboratory to grasp that this does not bode well for the sweet science.
Manny Pacquiao could face disciplinary action from Nevada boxing officials for failing to disclose a shoulder injury before his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
On Monday’s “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN, co-host Michael Wilbon reacted to Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which saw the convicted domestic abuser Mayweather end up victorious by unanimous decision, although some, including Evander Holyfield, saw the
During ESPN2’s “Olbermann” on Monday, host Keith Olbermann opened with a monologue saying that he told everybody to boycott the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight and that they should have listened to him. In the monologue, Olbermann ripped Mayweather for being
After Floyd Mayweather’s unanimous decision victory over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, social media lit up with complaints, rants, and tantrums. The epic bitching made legendary SNL characters Doug and Wendy Whiner look like optimists. The irony of it all is that all those supposed “boxing fans” crying in their beer got exactly what they paid for.
During Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, ESPN reporter Jeremy Schaap appeared as a guest to discuss the sport of boxing’s future, as well as Saturday’s boxing match between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in which Mayweather
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao were not the only ones getting pummeled in the ring during Saturday night’s fight at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
After Saturday’s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., which saw Mayweather win by unanimous decision, former heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Evander Holyfield told ESPN’s Robert Flores that he actually thought Pacquiao won Saturday’s fight. Holyfield was asked if
Floyd Mayweather won a unanimous decision victory over Manny Pacquiao in the most lucrative fight in boxing history.
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” decided to give up on competing with the pay-per-view broadcast of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight by “pirating” the broadcast of the fight. The sketch begins with NBC recapping its sports line-up of hockey, the Kentucky Derby, and
Undefeated middleweight Tony Harrison tells Breitbart Sports that the high price tag of the Mayweather-Pacquiao won’t discourage him from laying down $90 to watch the fight.
Despite reports to the contrary, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has no plans to bail former rap mogul Suge Knight out of jail if he wins his upcoming fight against Manny Pacquiao, a person close to the boxer told TMZ Sports Thursday.
On Friday, on the eve of the much-ballyhooed boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, NV, an unapologetic Stephen A. Smith explained why he was pulling for Mayweather to emerge as the victor on Saturday. Smith,
In an interview with UCN, former boxer Mike Tyson reacted to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. saying he is better than Muhammad Ali. Tyson stated that Mayweather is “very delusional” by reasoning that he is a “very small, scared man” because he