Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently made headlines, emphasizing on racism in sports.
He singled out UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, former UFC women’s champion Ronda Rousey and even middleweight boxer Gennady Golovkin as personalities who have not attracted criticism compared to African-American individuals like Andre Ward.
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Well “The Notorious” may have taken note of that rant and has taken exception. In fact, it went as far as McGregor challenging Mayweather to a fight as mentioned via the Washington Post.
“Floyd Mayweather, don’t ever bring race into my success again," McGregor wrote on his Instagram account. "I am am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood. In my family’s long history of warfare there was a time where just having the name ‘McGregor’ was punishable by death. Do not ever put me in a bracket like this again."
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As far as the fight goes, Mayweather is unlikely to oblige. It is not the first time the Mayweather has been challenged to a fight, as Rousey did the same thing last year.
But even if Mayweather obliges, the conditions set by McGregor is unlikely to be acceptable.
“I will give you a fair 80/20 split purse in my favor seen as your last fight bombed at every area of revenue. At 27 years of age I now hold the key to this game. The game answers to me now,” McGregor wrote in the same post.
This whole issue is most likely to remain on social media, a place where both fighters have been known to heap their feelings.
Mayweather has since retired while McGregor is on the climb. The Irishman is set to return to the Octagon this coming March for UFC 197 where he will try to see if he can fare well in the UFC lightweight division. He will face off against UFC featherweight champion, Rafael dos Anjos.
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