What Floyd Mayweather's Past Opponents Said BEFORE & AFTER Facing Him! (PART TWO) #mcgregoredition

Fighters Like Conor McGregor Talked A Big Game Ahead Of Their Bout With Floyd Mayweather Jr., But Unfortunately For Them They Weren't Able To Back It Up. #SUBSCRIBE http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id... Conor McGregor’s super fight with Floyd Mayweather was one of the most hyped events in modern sports history, and all signs indicate it actually exceeded expectations at the box office. Tallied all up, the purse could hit $700 million, according to the Telegraph, and while the official split is confidential, many believe it to be 70-30 in Mayweather’s favor. The most concrete proof of the fight’s huge purse came from Mayweather himself, who revealed at his post-fight press conference that they had broken the live gate record for a boxing match. McGregor, the UFC star crossing over to boxing to make his professional boxing debut against Mayweather, an all-time great who is coming out of a two-year retirement for the one-off fight, will meet Saturday (Showtime PPV, 9 p.m. ET) Baltimore's Gervonta Davis (18-0, 17 KOs) was supposed to defend his junior lightweight world title for the second time by taking on Costa Rica's Francisco Fonseca (19-0-1, 13 KOs) in the co-feature of the pay-per-view. Mayweather, who is 40, said he's not the same fighter he was years ago but said he would have no problem handling McGregor. "We know Mr. Tapout like to quit. You will wave that white flag," Mayweather said. Over the course of his career, Mayweather has generated 20 million views and $1.3 billion in revenue on pay-per-view, according to Showtime Sports head Stephen Espinoza. At one point, Mayweather bashed McGregor for fighting for such smaller stakes than the more lucrative bouts he and his The Money Team have negotiated. He pulled out a $100 million check from his backpack. McGregor, though, quickly responded with an allusion to the boxer's IRS troubles: "That's for the tax man." The location of the fight was moved this week when promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship of his Big3 basketball league from the T-Mobile Arena to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on that same date. The T-Mobile Arena, which opened last year, has a capacity of about 20,000. Mayweather and McGregor are launching a four-city tour this week to promote the fight. With a plus/minus connect percentage rating of plus-30 percent, Mayweather is at least twice as effective in the hit-and-don't-get-hit game as any of his contemporaries. Ward, who ranks fifth in Dan Rafael's March pound-for-pound rankings, is next best behind Mayweather with a plus-15 percent differential. After welterweight champ Manny Pacquiao's lackluster performance against Juan Manuel Marquez, Mayweather seemed to re-emerge as the popular favorite in the Manny-"Money" fantasy bout, should it ever take place. But how does this era's greatest pure boxer stack up statistically against the era's greatest brawler? Pacquiao recently lost to huge underdog Jeff Horn from Australia. During Floyd's prime, he's faced the likes of Diego Corrales, Ricky Hatton, Oscar Delahoya, Juan Marquez, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto, Canelo Alvarez, + More. Before retirement there was talks of possibly a fight between Mayweather & Danny Garcia, Keith Thurman, Errol Spence, Kell Brook, & Gennady Golovkin