Conor McGregor learned how to promote himself from Floyd Mayweather and it has worked beautifully for him.
He is literally the only UFC fighter who gets to call his own shots.
Getting his boxing license was another brilliant PR move and as long as he keep bringing up Mayweather we will keep talking about it.
“I don’t give a fuck about Floyd, either,” “If you don’t want this fight, that’s no problem. Because other than the Manny Pacquiao numbers, other than the Floyd-Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view numbers, gate numbers, I hold all the numbers. So I don’t need Floyd. I do not need him.”
“F*ck Floyd’s manager,” “Tell him to come say it to me face. I’ve got the boxing license, now Floyd’s in the Bahamas. He was just there a minute ago and I get the boxing license and he’s gone.
“Look, Floyd is a phenomenal boxer. It’s a different craft for me to go into do this. But with correct preparation, if I took out my jiu-jitsu training, my wrestling training, my kickboxing training, if I took out all those different disciplines and focused with the work ethic I have solely on the sport of boxing, there’s no telling what I could do.”
“I would not go in there just to show up,” “I’d go in there to knock him out. And that’s it. He can be hit. He’s been hit before. Age waits for no man, also. so I know they know that. I know the size is only size. I know the reach is on my side. I know the youth is on my side. So there’s a lot to lose for them, that’s why they’re scrambling.”
Mayweather doesn’t need McGregor and honestly at the moment McGregor doesn’t need Mayweather, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t scam the world for millions if they ever got on same page.