Conor McGregor Fires Back At Floyd Mayweather Jr. About Racism Comment

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are cut from the same cloth when it comes to being vocal and staying in the news.

So when Mayweather questioned McGregor’s popularity in a recent interview with Fight Hype, it was only a matter of time before the UFC champion fired back at the undefeated boxer.

Mayweather compared his own trash talk to McGregor’s and suggested the fighters’ outspoken tactics are viewed differently — Mayweather is criticized whereas McGregor is praised — because “racism still exists” in combat sports. The comment didn’t sit well with McGregor, who addressed Mayweather’s interesting stance in a rousing Instagram post over the weekend.

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“Floyd Mayweather, don’t ever bring race into my success again,” McGregor wrote. “I 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.”

McGregor even offered to fight Mayweather — with a catch. The UFC champion offered an 80/20 purse split in his own favor because Mayweather’s last fight against Andre Berto — perhaps the final bout of Mayweather’s boxing career — bombed from a revenue perspective.

Of course, one shouldn’t expect to see the 27-year-old McGregor and the 38-year-old Mayweather trade blows anytime soon, even though such an MMA-boxing crossover almost certainly would break pay-per-view records. However, one should expect a verbal rebuttal from Mayweather.

After all, these guys talk the talk as well as they walk the walk.

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