‘Let me kick your a** for a lot of money before you lose again in UFC,’ Floyd Mayweather taunts Conor McGregor

Floyd Mayweather taunted Conor McGregor, saying the UFC fighter should let the boxer “kick his a** for a lot of money” before his star power fades.

MMA sensation McGregor has been calling out Mayweather over the last year. The retired 49-times unbeaten champ told the Daily Telegraph in an exclusive interview that “we can make it happen”, and scoffed at the Irishman for being an “employee” of UFC rather than a “shot-caller” like himself.

“The difference between me and him is this: He has to fight. If I was him and I was smart, before I lose again in the UFC I’d let Floyd Mayweather kick my a** for a lot of money. It makes business sense,” Mayweather told the Telegraph.

“If someone says ‘I want to fight Floyd Mayweather’, I can simply say ‘yes, let’s make it happen’. But when you’ve got a guy like Conor McGregor he has to talk to Dana White [UFC president]. Dana has to talk to Dana’s bosses.

“Conor’s not a shot caller. When they said ‘Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?’, it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don’t have a boss. We could have easily made the fight happen years ago. Everything happens for a reason.

“I’ve had a 20-year run. You have to give respect to get respect. The UFC is a great company, a cool company. But I still haven’t seen one fighter [in the UFC], and I’m going to give you a low number – from 10 years ago – make $30 million. But we built our brand to make it $100 million a fight and $300 million a fight.