Consistent with his boxing statements filled with inconsistencies, retired boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is again throwing hints about a potential ring return.
During his typically grandiose 40th birthday in Los Angeles last weekend, Mayweather in some ways defended an intriguing match between a highly-successful boxing champion like him and a current superstar from another sport, UFC lightweight kingpin Conor McGregor.
Talks about a Mayweather-McGregor bout have been going on the past couple of weeks but the brash American boxer seems to be spilling a few more beans lately for sports media to chew on.
“I don’t know if the fight is going to happen. If it do, it’d do. If it don’t, it don’t. But if it did happen that would be my last fight. But of course, that fight makes a lot of sense,” said Mayweather.
Mayweather, who supposedly retired after extending his unblemished ring record to 49 wins by defeating Andre Berto last September 2015, went on to defend why a bout between an elite boxer and a mixed martial arts fighter would make sense.
“It’s all about entertainment. That could be the biggest fight in the history of the sport. We’ll just see,” added Mayweather.
The former pound-for-pound king, who has unretired a couple of times in the past, even went on to presume that McGregor has what it takes to excel in boxing.
“The thing that we do know is Conor McGregor has never lost standing up. We’ve seen him lose before on the ground. But standing up, Conor can fight,” said Mayweather.
Recently, Mayweather said only a $100-million minimum fight purse can goad him into making a comeback and even made a $15-million offer for McGregor to get in the ring with him. (Dennis Principe)