A pointless fight really because Mayweather will obviously win. McGregor has no shot. And I am a McGregor fan and dislike Floyd.
Conor is a good boxer by UFC standard, but UFC standard boxing is miles away from actual boxing. I think Conor is going to be stunned by the hand speed of Floyd. To be honest if Conor was to box a run of the mill pro boxer he'd still get absolutely clowned. So what bloody chance does he have against one of the best of all time? Zero.
All those years Conor has spent spreading his time learning different martial arts, Floyd has spent that time completely focused on one discipline. In fact it isn't even that, it is all that time and then a bloody decade on top of that. It's absolutely insane that anyone thinks Conor has a shot. The betting odds are ridiculous to be honest. Floyd should be 1/100.
What is going to be interesting is Conor's reaction after he realises the gulf between them. And it will happen very quickly. Floyd will start clowning him after 1 or 2 rounds. Dropping his hands and letting Conor throw punches before just moving out the way and countering. Say what you want about Conor, but he is an elite fighter. In his career in MMA he has never came up against anyone who could clown him. He does that to others, nobody does that to him. So it will be very interesting to see how an elite fighter like him deals with getting embarrassed round in round out. He'll quickly realise that he can't win, probably after the first or second round and that will seriously hurt his pride because for an elite fighter to get the piss taken out of them in a fight - regardless of the discipline - will be hard to swallow, regardless of what he is getting paid for it, especially as he is the type of guy who is genuinely so delusional about how good he is that he will actually think he can win this fight.
The other thing that I really want to know is what Conor will be getting paid for this. I keep seeing people say $100m+. There is no way he will be getting 9 figures for this fight. This isn't going to be a 50/50 split. And even if it was - which it wont be - it wouldnt be a 50/50 split between Floyd and Conor because Conor has a contract with UFC. They are the ones negotiating the deal not Conor.
Floyd/Pac was a 60/40 split so lets say at best this fight is a 60/40 fight. Conor wont get that 40. At best he'll get 40% of 40%. In the 60/40 split between Floyd/Pac all in Floyd apparently took home $230m and Pacman about $150m. So absolute best case scenario for Conor I reckon is a payday of $60m. That is obviously insane still but its a long way short of the $100m some people claim he'd make. And that's best case if he's managed to get a 60/40 split in both deals. It wouldn't be insane to think it could be 30% of 30% so closer to $35m. Still a lot more than his usual $10m a fight he gets now for an MMA fight but not insane.