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Pop stars, athletes, actors and strippers: A night out with Floyd Mayweather
By Howie Reed, New York Post, Sat, 26 Aug 2017
LAS VEGAS ? It?s a show, even when the spotlight is supposed to be off.
It is 9:27 p.m. on Thursday when one Ferrari, one Lamborghini and four massive SUVs slowly turn into a shopping center parking lot, and drive through a Chinese archway to get to Mayweather Boxing Club.
The Rolls Royces are Read Full Story >>>Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Fight Unsafe for Notorious, Doctors Say
By Adam Wells, BleacherReport.com, Sat, 26 Aug 2017
As the anticipation builds for Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday, the Association of Ringside Physicians believes McGregor is putting himself in serious physical danger by even stepping into the ring with the undefeated boxing superstar.
Per Joe DePaolo of the New York Times, th Read Full Story >>> Four Ways of Looking at Mayweather vs. McGregor
By Nancy Kidder, The Atlantic, Sat, 26 Aug 2017
On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Conor McGregor will face off against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in what is being billed as ?the biggest fight in combat-sports history.? Mayweather is undefeated as a professional boxer and just one victory away from beating Rocky Marciano?s all-time record of 49-0. McGrego Read Full Story >>> Mayweather, McGregor Bringing Trash Talk To A New Level
By Matt Citak, CBS news, Sat, 26 Aug 2017
Although the fight was announced just over two months ago, Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor have been trading insults with each other for over a year. It began when, seemingly out of nowhere, McGregor posted a picture on Twitter of the two fighters facing each other with the caption, ?MMA vs. Box Read Full Story >>> Why Mayweather is expected to make millions more than McGregor during Saturday's fight
By Jonathan Blumberg, CNBC.com, Sat, 26 Aug 2017
Saturday's "Fight of the Century" between the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor, a UFC fighter making his professional boxing debut, is expected to break viewership records and be the most lucrative match in the history of the sport.
The Los Angeles Times projects it will bring Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Sees a Racial Double Standard in Megafight vs. McGregor
By John Eligon, The New York Times, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
It had been more than two decades since a white man had won the world heavyweight boxing title.
The eccentric promoter Don King knew not only that, but that the United States was still a country with deep racial divisions. So when Gerry Cooney ? a stout, white New Yorker with a punishing left hoo Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao won't watch Mayweather-McGregor, says 'it could be very boring'
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
The all-time pay-per-view record was set in 2015, when 4.6 million customers purchased a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. If the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight is going to break that, it will have to do it without at least one customer.
Manny Pacquiao hims Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach on Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor: ?You can?t just count McGregor out?
By Shaun Al-Shatti, MMA Fighting, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Freddie Roach has been around the fight game for five decades, a former boxer who has seen a parade of champions walk through the doors of his famed Wildcard Boxing Club in hopes of training with one of the brightest boxing minds of a generation. Roach is also intimately familiar with Floyd Mayweath Read Full Story >>> No Matter Who Wins Mayweather-McGregor, the Biggest Loser Is HBO
By Brin-Jonathan Butler , Bloomberg.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s defensive genius has made him the easiest boxer in history for opponents to miss. Early on, it was the high-powered promoters and executives who failed to accurately assess his earning potential. Money Mayweather still hasn?t forgotten.
For the last bout of his career, Mayw Read Full Story >>> Conor McGregor: 'Boxing will look amazing with its new king'
CNN.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
(CNN) ? Shades on, slouched casually in his chair, Conor McGregor doesn't exude the air of a man about to enter a fight most people expect him to lose.
One bookmaker is so sure of a Mayweather victory it's already paid out more than $320,000 to punters who had backed the American to win Saturday's Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs McGregor drug testing details
By Lee Cleveland , Fight Saga, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Several hours ago, it was announced that UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones failed a drug prior to his title-taking win over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 last month in Anaheim, California.
As a result, many in the fight game are probably wondering what the drug testing policy is for Saturday's Read Full Story >>> Why it's all on McGregor to prove Mayweather bout is a fight, not a farce
By Bill Reiter, CBS Sports, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Now, we find out.
Finally, after the hype and the wait and the head games and the buzz, we'll soon find out the truth: whether we're in for a sports spectacle ... or we're just suckers.
That's at stake Saturday night as much as any notion of the future of boxing, the merits Read Full Story >>> A Roman Thumbs Down for Conor McGregor
By Adam Berlin, Boxing.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Perhaps veteran referee Robert Byrd, recognizing that the fight in front of him is a ridiculous mismatch, will stop the bout before it gets too dangerous?
We?re a day away.
With a poetry collection soon to come out, I?ve tried to find a non-clich?, a fresh metaphor, some original words to tou Read Full Story >>> The world's greatest boxer...who needs eight GIANT bodyguards
By Thomas Burrows, Mail Online (UK), Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Kitted out in a grey checked suit, black shirt and sunglasses Floyd Mayweather was dwarfed by eight monstrous bodyguards as the boxing great prepared to take on mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor in a battle of combat sports kings tipped to be the richest fight in history.
Private jets a Read Full Story >>> What Will The Fight At The End Of The Mayweather Vs. McGregor Circus Look Like?
By Patrick Wyman, Deadspin.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Everything about the leadup to Conor McGregor?s matchup with Floyd Mayweather this Saturday has been absurd. We had McGregor in a suit adorned with ?Fuck You? in a vertical pinstripe pattern; dollar bills raining down from the heavens; confrontations between McGregor?s and Mayweather?s enormous secu Read Full Story >>> Faced with thorny ethics of buying a Floyd Mayweather fight, some fans try to 'balance the scales'
By Ben Fowlkes , MMA Junkie, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
On Saturday night in Las Vegas a serial abuser of women will put on a pair of boxing gloves, step through the ropes and earn an incredible sum of money for acts of violence very similar to those that, in the not-so distant past, terrorized the women and children in his life.
We know this, in part Read Full Story >>> Jhack Tepora Moves Up in Weight, Faces South Africa's Lusanda Komanisi for the Vacant WBO Inter-Continental Featherweight Title
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
CEBU CITY ? Undefeated prospect Jhack Tepora (20-0-0, 15KOs) has moved up to featherweight and will take on former world champion Lusanda Komanisi (21-3-0, 18KOs) of South Africa for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental feathe Read Full Story >>> Mayweather vs. McGregor Celeb Fans Warned ... Last Call for Private Jets!
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
TMZ SPORTS -- Mayweather/McGregor celeb fans are gonna be screwed out of prime Strip parking if they swoop in last minute ... because Vegas doesn't want the private jet s**t show that went down for Mayweather's last fight of th Read Full Story >>> How Conor McGregor can do the impossible and beat Floyd Mayweather
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
Conor McGregor has self-belief like no other fighter. He has a devastating left hand, which lands from awkward angles on the counter, and a longer reach than Floyd Mayweather.
He's also a bigger man - he will be 12 pounds heavier on the night - and believes he can beat Mayweather. That's huge.
Read Full Story >>> Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor: The most likely outcomes
By Matt Bungard, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri, 25 Aug 2017
It's been dismissed as a freak show, but the credibility of both Floyd Mayweather jnr and Conor McGregor are on the line when they meet in the boxing ring on Sunday. There are plenty of potential outcomes, but some are more likely than others.
Most likely: Mayweather wins via stoppage
The equati Read Full Story >>>
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