Floyd Mayweather Puts A Price On The Heads Of McGregor & Nurmagomedov
It looks like the Champ Floyd Mayweather has named his price to jump back in the ring for a 2020 comeback, and fight Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Mayweather has demanded $600 million to go face-to-face with his former opponent McGregor, and UFC lightweight champion and rival Nurmagomedov; adding that the numbers have to make sense.
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Speaking at an event at London’s York Hall, Mayweather explains, “Like we talked about on social media, there’s two names right now. We talked about the Conor McGregor fight, we talked about the Khabib fight. For myself, the number is $600M. If I’m going to go out there and risk it, it’d have to be worth it.”
Additionally, since taking charge of his own career, the champ shares how his earning has continuously skyrocketed on a fight-by-fight basis. He says, “Last time we went from $250m to $300m and hopefully we can break that this year.”
Furthermore, he breaks down how the fight with McGregor, which he won by TKO in the 10th round, was branded as a “business move.”
He explains, “In the boxing world as of right now, it doesn’t make sense for me to fight any ordinary fighter. I’m a business man. The Conor McGregor fight made sense. If it makes money, it makes sense. I don’t fight fighters or compete against competitors that only have cities behind them. If I’m going to fight you, you have to have a whole country behind you. The first fight was entertaining. It’s an entertainment business.”