Floyd Mayweather Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Mayweather vs. McGregor - LA Press Conference Live Stream - In anticipation of the unprecedented showdown between legendary boxing champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather and UFC ® champion “The Notorious” Conor McGregor, the fighters will embark on a four-city international press tour beginning Tuesday, July 11 in Los Angeles where Mayweather and McGregor will square off for the very first time.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. apparently owes much more to the Internal Revenue Service in taxes from 2015 than he thought. According to a story posted to the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s website Tuesday afternoon, Mayweather owes $22 million in taxes from his substantial earnings in 2015. The Review-Journal obtained documents that state the boxing superstar faces a $22 million tax lien, which was filed March 6.
Cynics are already dismissing it as Floyd Mayweather’s way of helping sell what much of the public perceives to be an ill-conceived mismatch. Nevertheless, Mayweather told FightHype.com during an interview posted Tuesday that he is feeling the effects of his first training camp in two years and that he doesn’t feel like the same fighter he was when he last boxed in 2015. The 40-year-old Mayweather is several weeks into what he says has been a harder-than-expected training camp for his highly scrutinized boxing match against UFC superstar Conor McGregor on August 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Floyd Mayweather's boxing match against Conor McGregor will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship game of his Big3 basketball league. The final game of the 3-on-3 season of former NBA players will now be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Aug. 26, with a 4:30 p.m. Eastern start.
Conor McGregor hasn’t made a specific prediction publicly, but he has been telling friends he’ll knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the fourth round. According to a story posted on The Sun’s website Monday, a source close to McGregor told the London tabloid of the brash Irish southpaw’s prediction for their August 26 fight in Las Vegas.
One of the bigger boxing stories in the last few days, was the fact that former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather filed an appeal with the IRS regarding overdue taxes. Mayweather filed a tax court petition on July 5, asking the IRS to grant him a reprieve and allow him to pay his taxes after he is paid for next month's bout vs. mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor.
Since early last year, fans were clamoring for a showdown between two of Top Rank's most talented fighters, Manny Pacquiao and Terence Crawford. That fight, more or less, went down the tubes two weeks ago, when Pacquiao was upset over twelve rounds by big underdog Jeff Horn, who captured the Filipino star's WBO welterweight title at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
Former two division world champion Ricky Hatton admits that he's a big fan of UFC superstar Conor McGregor, but he's not very confident about the fighter's chances in the upcoming clash with five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. McGregor, in his first professional boxing match, will take on Mayweather on August 26th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
UFC superstar Conor McGregor has landed in Beverly Hills, California -- and he's spending crazy money and talking smack! We got Conor in the middle of a super expensive shopping spree at Versace, Dolce, etc -- where he told TMZ Sports, "I'm on Rodeo Drive! I'm blowing f***ing loads of it!" McGregor is in town for the start of his four city media tour to promote the upcoming showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - which takes place on August 26th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The fight will be available on Showtime Pay-Per-View for $99.95 in HD.
It's still early, but give Round 1 of the trash-talk battle between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to the Irish MMA star. A mural in McGregor's gym depicts the UFC showman landing a left flush to Mayweather's chin. McGregor has used that vision a few times as his way to needle the undefeated boxer since their Aug. 26 match was announced, even quoting "Rocky IV" villain Ivan Drago : "If he dies, he dies."