Dana White offers Mayweather, McGregor $25 million each for boxing match

[Superbee]

Anyone spitting on a 60-70M $ night (including PPV splits) would be a coward and a loser ...

[TheCell8]

Conor is such a star that Dana is offering him 8x his previous highest payday to fight Mayweather.

Mayweather on the other hand was just offered 20% less than he made for Berto... and about 10x less than he made for Pacquiao after the back end.

Showtime lost money on the Berto fight. Floyd is not going to get paid anywhere near that amount again unless he fights Pacquiao, Canelo or Conor.

He's not going to see that kind of Payday again unless it's against a big name. Look what's happened to Pacquiao he's only getting $4M per fight now because his PPVs are bombing and the same is going to happen with Mayweather unless he fights a big name.

McGregor made at least $13M vs. Eddie Alvarez who hadn't headlined a PPV in his life before.

You could say that he's getting robbed by the UFC , but the UFC is obviously doing something right as they're worth $4.2B. It's by not blowing and overpaying fighters.

PBC, TR, GBP are not on their level for a reason.

[Wolfdog5]

Dana White is a complete idiot just like skip bayless. I don't think he really want McGregor to fight Mayweather and is trying to sabotage the whole thing. You not going to beat Mayweather at the negotiating table and he is the A-side whether you like him or not. If you compare the ufc top 10 gates vs Mayweather last 10 gates it not even close.

[TheCell8]

The point is that Dana is the one that's actually making a responsible and realistic offer. One where both fighters and the UFC would gain. It's not like Floyd wouldn't get any piece of the PPV, he'd get a large enough cut to where he'd be walking away from the fight (A fight that he's favored heavily to win) with potentially $60-70M.

For Floyd to offer McGregor 15M, he'd have to give him at least 60-70% of the PPV cut because McGregor has proven he can sell PPVs with anybody you put in front of him and Floyd has only proven he can sell with big names like Canelo and Pacquiao.

[al-Xander]

GOOGLE!!

[Bigg Rigg]

Floyd knows he only has one option and that's Conor. Dana knows this too. Nobody is buying that PPV for Floyd. He can't sell **** at this point. Conor comes back in the UFC and sells another million. Floyd just sold like 300k last time out.

[MrRolltide91]

Yeah sure, have Conor fight a boxing match against anyone else and see how many PPVs it sells compared to fighting Mayweather. $25 million is laughable for Mayweather, that's how far above Conor he is when $25m is chump change.

LOL floyd might as well fight pacquiao again

[KillaCamNZ]

Dana and Conor are way out of their depth here. 25mil is less than Floyd got for fighting Andre fkn Berto.

It'll get the casuals talking and calling Floyd a coward - but it won't go any way towards actually getting the fight signed. It's free publicity for Dana and Conor, that's all this situation is about.

Remember, people..Dana is paid to attract eyeballs. He's not paid to be a matchmaker, he's not paid to be a decision-maker..he's a minority owner who is kept on board because he attracts heat. This whole situation is predictable and pointless.

[tommyg6]

If this fight does not get made cuz Mayweather didn't get his 100m, then he is definately ducking McGregor. He says he wants 100m cuz its his way of pricing himself out!

[-Antonio-]

Both sides are posturing. I don't even think Floyd really wants to fight. He has too much to lose in this scenario and UFC won't budge because they love to rob their fighters. This 25 mllion offer is another great example. That fight would generate 200 million easily yet he only wants to give out 50. How absurd is that?