Undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr has revealed the reason why he didn’t go for an early finish in his crossover fight with Conor McGregor.
Back in August 2017, Mayweather welcomed the UFC’s biggest draw in the squared circle as they starred in the most lucrative and one of the highest grossing fights in combat sports history.
As expected, ‘Money’ took care of business, stopping the Irish mixed martial artist in the tenth round to remain unscathed in 50 professional bouts.
He would later on announced his retirement for the third time as he cashed in a whopping $100 million payday from the boxing-meets-MMA affair.
More than two years since he last fought in the ring, the boxing legend made some revelations about his preparation for ‘The Notorious’ and why he didn’t finish him in the early rounds.
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Speaking to Drink Champs, Mayweather reflected on his blockbuster fight with McGregor, saying he barely trained for the match.
“For the Conor McGregor fight I didn’t really train,” he revealed.
“All I did was do push-ups and sit-ups, boxed a few times, hit the bag a few times.”
“Training camp was in different places, sometimes I wouldn’t go to the gym for a week.”
“I took it serious, but I wanted to have some fun in the fight and I wanted to entertain the people.”
The undefeated boxer also shared he chose not to finish his opponent ‘right out the gate’ so combat sports fans would enjoy a long night and a rematch could be on the line.
“You have to give the people a show, so I gave the people a show.”
“If I wanted to go out there and f*** him up and blaze him right out the gate, I could’ve did that.”
“But my thing is this, if I would’ve did that, then it wouldn’t be probably a part two.”
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Last year, Floyd announced he will be coming out retirement again as he works with UFC president Dana White for another ‘spectacular event.’
To this, he proposed the idea of fighting McGregor and another UFC star in Khabib Nurmagomedov on the same 24-hour period.
“Just this year alone, with the two fights on the table, the numbers are up there high”.
“My numbers can be somewhere upwards of $600million. I even talked about fighting Khabib and Conor in the same day.”
“I’d fight Khabib in the daytime and I’d fight Conor at night.”
“You’ve gotta realise, I don’t fight boxers. I already proved to the world I’m the best at that.”
“I don’t need to be on the pound-for-pound list. It’s no longer the pound-for-pound list, it’s the Mayweather-for-Mayweather list. I’ve surpassed that.”
(Featured Image Source: Instagram/ Conor McGregor and YouTube/ ESPN)