Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor Live
A week on Sunday, Conor McGregor will take part in the biggest fight of his career.
In the early hours of Sunday August 27, the reigning UFC lightweight champion will take on Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather in a multi-million-pound boxing match.
McGregor’s encounter with 49–0 Mayweather takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas — ‘The Fight Capital of the World’.
The pay-per-view, which has the potential to become the most purchased sporting event of all time. In total, the Mayweather vs. McGregor card will feature eight fights, including two world title bouts.
Before the main event, WBA light-heavyweight champion and IBF super-featherweight champion Gervonta Davis will defend their belts against Badou Jack and Franciso Fonseca. The pay-per-view portion of Mayweather vs. McGregor is expected to get underway at 3am BST (7pm PT 9pm ET).
The main event of the evening, which has divided opinion in the boxing world, should commence at around 5:30am BST.
However, should the bouts on the main card go the distance; the most talked about fight of the year could begin at 6:00am BST.
Mayweather vs. McGregor is currently on course to break the pay-per-view record set by Mayweather’s 2015 ‘Fight of the Century’ with Manny Pacquiao, which stands at a staggering 4.4m buys.
McGregor, the first active UFC fighter to take part in a boxing match is expected to earn upwards of £70m ($100m) for his pro-boxing debut.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has approved the request from Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor to use smaller boxing gloves for their fight on August 26.
The NSAC voted unanimously in favor of this one-off exception, allowing them to employ 8-ounce gloves in their 154-pound bout, rather than normal relations which state that 10oz gloves should be used about the 135b limit.
It was Mayweather who first suggested the move, with McGregor ordinary using 4oz gloves in mixed martial arts in the UFC. Both fighters have claimed the lighter, smaller gloves will give them an advantage, McGregor predicting that he will “knock Floyd out inside four rounds”.
Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather Jr is on!
The worst kept secret in fighting has finally been revealed with the super fight set to take place later this summer.
UFC legend McGregor will take on the unbeaten five division boxing champion Mayweather.
The pair has both confirmed the event will happen on their social media pages — with the Irishmen taking a chance to troll his 40-year-old American rival.
The Dubliner agreed to a deal with UFC president Dana White to allow him to fight Mayweather in a boxing match.
And through his promotions company, Mayweather reserved the summer date with the Nevada Commission. But when is all the action? How can you watch it? What are all the details? Here is everything that you need to know…
Where will the fight take place?
McGregor and Mayweather will slug it out at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The venue has a capacity of 20,000 for ring based events.
It has previously seen Canelo Alvarez vs. Amir Khan, Canelo Alvarez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez, UFCs 200, 202, 207, 209 and 213 take places.
How much will the fighters earn?
The mega-fight could generate upwards of £500million.
UFC head honcho Dana White expects McGregor to earn around $100m — although the breakdown of that figure has not been broken down.
Mayweather is thought to have negotiated a bigger slice of the profits. The fight is expected to break all television box office records.
What are the rules?
According to TMZ, the fighters will use 10 ounce gloves in a 12 round boxing fight. Both McGregor and Mayweather will be tested by USAGA for performing enhancing drugs after the fight.
What weight will they fight at?
They will fight at the light-middleweight limit of 154lb — a weight at which Mayweather beat Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.
Fighters’ records
McGregor — UFC
25 fights
22 win (18 KOs)
3 defeats
Mayweather — Professional Boxing
49 fights
49 win (26 KOs)
0 defeats
“When you talk about super fights, this is a super fight. Two different guys from two different sports going in and putting it on the line. You can’t charge what you normally charge for a pay-per-view, I get it.
“There was pushback on the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao super fight and it ended up being the biggest fight ever in the history of PPV.”
Floyd Mayweather’s upcoming Las Vegas super-fight with Conor McGregor may well be poised to become one of the most lucrative fights in the history of boxing, but a large number of hardcore fans have so far stubbornly refused to take the bait.
They fear the contest will be uncompetitive — referring to it either as a ‘freak-show’ or ‘celebrity fights’ — and are more interested in Gennady Golovkin’s lineal middleweight championship showdown with Canelo Alvarez in September, instead.
Understanding that the main event has been met with a mixed reception, Mayweather Promotions deserve credit for delivering an undercard which includes two title fights among the four televised contests that will precede the main event.
“What a night this will be for fight fans,” said Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe in the press release that accompanied the reveal of the undercard. “Not only will they witness a first of its kind main event, but they will also see two incredible world title fights, as Mayweather Promotions’ very own current and former world champions go head-to-head in separate bouts.”
The reason Floyd Mayweather’s forthcoming fight with Conor McGregor is so eagerly anticipated is not because it’s expected to be a particularly close contest — the American can currently be backed at odds as short as 1/7 — but because fight fans are intrigued as to how well the skills of a mixed martial artist will translate in the boxing ring.
McGregor is known as one of the greatest strikers in the UFC, with few of his opponents unable to survive his devastating pull-back left-hand counter. But how quickly will the Irishman have learnt the many nuances of boxing, with a set of skills that Mayweather has honed day in, day out for the past 30 years?
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But McGregor is far from the first fighter to chance his arm in a different sport. From Muhammad Ali to Kimbo Slice, Ray Mercer to James Toney — the two sports of boxing and MMA have often found them entwining in surprising new ways.
