Floyd Mayweather Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Even one full year later, boxing fans just can’t seem to shake off the massive letdown that came with the long-awaited and ultimately disappointing showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao last May.
Hall of Famer 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, who captured five divisional titles, is confident that he would have beaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. - if the two of them had met in the same era.
MMA star Nate Diaz is not buying the high profile headlines. He calls Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor as nothing more than a "publicity stunt."
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach revealed that retired pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) had visited his gym, the Wild Boxing Club in Hollywood, on more than one occasion as of late.
Top strength and conditioning coach Justin Fortune believes a potential fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor would be a mismatch of the highest order.
Veteran trainer and ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas expects both Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to come out of retirement at some point.
According to UFC President Dana White, there has been zero communication from Floyd Mayweather Jr., Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe, and Mayweather adviser Al Haymon - regarding a high profile pay-per-view fight with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who promote WBC/IBO/IBF/WBA middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), laughed at the numerous interviews where Floyd Mayweather Jr. is advising Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (47-1-1, 33KOs) to reject a potential fight with GGG.
Conor McGregor says his dispute with UFC became a "publicised civil war" once he refused to participate in a promotion for a fight and the wildly popular fighter took his unhappiness to social media.
The headlines continue for a fantasy fight between former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor. Mayweather got the ball rolling by throwing McGregor's name around, and even went as far as to tell Showtime, during a televised interview, that he would only consider unretiring if McGregor was the man facing him in the other corner.