McGregor Coach: Mayweather Should Have Stuck To Hitting Girls

Floyd Mayweather can never escape his past domestic violence arrest and eventual incarceration for the crime.

Everyone knew Conor McGregor was going to bring it up in the press tour the two fighters are going through this week and everyone knew there would be some low blows taken in the process. On both sides.

But what people didn't know was that the lowest of blows wouldn't come from a fighter, but from McGregor's coach John Kavanaugh - who took another swipe at Mayweather's past legal troubles as it relates to domestic abuse issues and assault charges.

Kavanaugh let his opinion fly on Twitter Wednesday night in a tweet that cut deep to the core.

"He should have stuck to hitting girls and running strip clubs. He's awoken a dark, dark animal that he's only met in his worst nightmares," Kavanaugh stated.

Kavanaugh was later asked about the tweet probably in an attempt to get an apology, but he said he was just "stating fact."

The Showtime Pay-Per-View fight is scheduled to take place on August 26th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The big problem is that Mayweather-McGregor provides no grounds on which to base any serious expectation. It has the form line of two strangers taking issue in the street. But with one significant difference. One is schooled, and gifted, in the combat to an extraordinary degree. The other is lacking both any kind of grooming or the help of anything he has been able to develop as a working instinct.

No one has made the point more trenchantly than the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Lennox Lewis. Mayweather, it maybe should not be forgotten, played his part in boxing's struggles when he dallied for so long before his fight with Manny Pacquiao. That had the potential of the ages but the best of Pacquiao had gone when they came together and Mayweather received his acclaim as arguably the greatest defensive strategist in the history of the ring.

Maybe so, maybe not, but the truth was that his sport had been denied the chance of seeing the art displayed against an aggressor still filled with the prime of his talent.