I’d definitely take this one with a huge grain of salt.
According to UFC star Michael Bisping, Floyd Mayweather may have been a victim of a scam; and THAT’S the reason for his recent uptick in activity regarding making the fight with McGregor happen.
Considering Floyd Mayweather has made hundreds of millions of dollars in his boxing career, I can’t imagine what amount of cash he could lose to press him into a fight he really didn’t want to take, but i’ll let you read the story, via UPROXX, and be the judge:
Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor seemed to be getting pushed forward a lot more by Conor McGregor. But in the past two weeks, that’s turned around. Now it’s Floyd Mayweather who’s making headlines trying to force the fight into existence. Most recently he came out of retirement and called on McGregor to “sign the contract.” He even floated a date in June for the fight (which may be getting held by the T-Mobile Arena in Vegas).
Why the sudden turn around? According to UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping, it’s because Floyd was just the mark in a major scam that cost him a lot of money, and now Mayweather is looking to recoup those losses.
“My bet is that the fight will happen. Will it happen in June? I don’t know, that might be a bit too soon,” Bisping said on his latest podcast. “But from what I understand, I was talking to someone in Las Vegas and I heard that Floyd recently got scammed out of a lot of money. The number was very, very big. I don’t think Floyd needs the money, but he wants to replace this money that he got swindled out of.”
Again, there’s no telling if this is true or not since theres been no reports of Mayweather being the victim of any scams (outside of a burglary of his Vegas mansion, however anything is possible.
I can’t say I wasn’t wondering why Mayweather randomly became so aggressive about the fight, even going so far as to name a date, but I highly doubt this is the reason.
Listen to Bisping detail the rumors of Mayweather’s real reasoning to take the McGregor fight below:
FLOYD MAYWEATHER has come out of retirement to fight McGregor because he was “scammed out of a lot of money”, – Michael Bisping pic.twitter.com/HoIfZvdzHh
— UFC Related ?? (@UFCrelated) March 14, 2017