FLOYD Mayweather will ?annihilate?? Conor McGregor in their long-awaited August superfight, according to Jeff Horn who has already put up his hand to face the winner.
Horn challenges former Mayweather foe Manny Pacquiao for the world welterweight boxing title at Suncorp Stadium on July 2 in Australia?s biggest ever fight, well aware that Mayweather and Pacquiao generated $800 million from their 2015 bout.
Already Horn?s American promoter Bob Arum is calculating the enormous marketing potential of Brisbane?s clean-cut Fighting Schoolteacher if he can beat Pacquiao before an expected crowd of more than 50,000 at Suncorp in two weeks.
Horn says McGregor has ?absolutely no chance?? against Mayweather when they cash in Las Vegas on August 26.
Mayweather is unbeaten in 49 pro fights and regarded as the slickest boxer of his generation.
McGregor, a UFC cage fighter, has virtually no boxing experience and looks like a novice in sparring clips doing the rounds on social media.
Early indications, though, are that the fight could top the Mayweather-Pacquiao income stream and do more than $1 billion in business from ticket sales and global television revenues.
?Their fight is going to be under boxing rules and Mayweather will probably not even get hit,?? Horn said.
?If McGregor?s got any sense he?ll crash tackle Floyd at the opening bell and put a choke hold on him, get disqualified and then they?ll have a rematch and make even more money.
?But I would love a crack at Mayweather. He?s super-slick, a terrific boxer and I want to beat the very best.
?I have to get past Manny Pacquiao first, of course, and that?s a huge challenge but my career has all been about taking on big challenges most people thought were too great for me and then proving them wrong.??
After visiting the Maroons rugby league camp on the Gold Coast on Friday with his brother Ben ? a Golden Gloves amateur champion ? Horn went through a blistering training session at the West End gym of his strength and conditioning coach Dundee Kim on Friday afternoon.
He will have three more sessions with Kim before the fight and two more sparring sessions against Filipino southpaw Czar Amonsot before tapering in the last few days before facing Pacquiao.
Kim has been under instructions from Horn?s trainer Glenn Rushton to ?smash?? Horn every day in training and the Brisbane boxer is being pushed to beyond exhaustion as he gets ready for the rigours of a world title fight with Pacquiao, who at 38, is still one of the fastest and most savage punchers in boxing.
