A few days ago, the 5-level world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather spoke that he was willing to play a second game with his old rival, MMA star Connor McGregor, and it was rumored that the two teams were in contact. McGregor was defeated in 2017 in a battle with Mayweather, which was his debut as a professional boxer, and was nted by a 10-turn TKO, after which Mayweather announced his retirement and locked his record to 50 wins and 27 KO opponents.
After beating McGregor, Mayweather has been playing exhibition matches for several years, successively against Nasugawa Tenshin, Logan Paul, and Don Moore, and these three exhibition games have made him a lot of money. Now, Mayweather has once again finalized an exhibition match, and he will travel to Japan later this year to play against MMA star Miku Asakura.
According to relevant media reports, Mayweather is open to the second war with McGregor, but puts forward a precondition, that is, the honorarium must reach 9 figures. Mayweather also confirmed the matter in an exclusive interview with Showtime this week, saying: "Absolutely, I'm relaxed, all these guys are admiring me, they're trying to steal my blueprint and then they start hating me." ”
The Mayweather team then added: "When we say these things, if McGregor is listening, you can do it too, and most certainly, it's right, it's very personal, after all they left the boxing ring, hugged before, and now the situation is a little different." ”
McGregor quickly responded to Mayweather's request for a rematch, posting a photo of mayweather fighting through social media with the headline "I accept."
As a two-tier UFC champion, McGregor is recovering from last year's defeat against Dustin Poirir, where he suffered a serious leg injury. McGregor was scheduled to return to the field in July or August this year, but he has not trained so far. Last week, McGregor posted a photo of him kicking with an injured leg to show he was healed, though he has not worked with coach John Kavanagh. McGregor stressed that if he appeared on the field again, it would be in an octagon cage.
McGregor told Sky: "Boxing was my first love for the sport of fighting and I had a great time there last time. Obviously, my return will be in the UFC octagon, the story is far from over, in fact it is just written out, just the beginning, but for boxing, I will definitely shine again in the future. ”
As the top superstar of the MMA arena, McGregor now has a great taste of the day, because only 1 of the last 5 confrontations has been won, and many people think that McGregor's heart has flown elsewhere. Mayweather proposed that a 9-figure honorarium would be required for a two-game match with McGregor, which is hundreds of millions of dollars, and as long as the two sides are not playing an exhibition match, then the hundred million dollars is also reasonable.
Mayweather and McGregor a battle of the guaranteed honorarium of up to 100 million US dollars, that game set a record of 4.3 million PPV paid, ranking second in the highest rating of boxing, it is rumored that Mayweather finally counted the PPV commission, got nearly 300 million US dollars in the appearance fee, so the second battle proposed a 9-figure honorarium is nothing wrong, but compared to the first war, the second battle may not cause so much sensation, and given that Mayweather will next have to play with Asakura Miku, His second-game battle with McGregor will not be until at least the end of the year.