The reigning UFC lightweight champion takes on 40-year-old Mayweather in a mega-money boxing match on August 26.
McGregor’s multi-million-pound encounter with the former five-weight world champion takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ireland’s first UFC belt holder goes into the most-talked-about fight of the year having never boxed professionally, a fact many believe will be his downfall.
Despite having all the odds stacked against him, McGregor is confident of causing a huge upset and handing Mayweather his first professional loss.
His chances of doing so could increase should the Nevada Athletic Commission accept his and Mayweather’s application to do away with the 10oz gloves they’re currently scheduled to box in and use 8oz gloves.
Should that request be accepted, McGregor believes Mayweather won’t make it to the third round.
?I fight in four-ounce gloves, why would I give a [expletive]?? he said during his open workout in Las Vegas
?If we?re wearing eight-ounce gloves, I?m struggling to see how he lasts two rounds, and that?s the God?s honest truth.
