When Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor finally gets booked, we’re going to have to endure three different battles.
We’re still in the middle of the first and most arduous of all the wars – getting pen put to paper on that fight contract. Crossing the t’s and dotting the lower case j’s, ironing out all those pesky details isn’t going to be a smooth process, but once we cross that bridge, we can sit back and enjoy the wonderful madness of it all.
The last of the battles will be inside the ring itself, but rather than unfairly get everyone prematurely excited, we’ll just push that thought aside for a while.
It’s the middle one that everyone’s really looking forward to. The pageantry, the mental warfare, the trash talk, the press conferences… the circus.
UFC president Dana White recently remarked that the press conference will probably be more entertaining than the fight. We have a feeling they’ll be changing his moniker from ‘Uncle’ to ‘Mystic’ as this prediction seems very likely to materialise.
Something we hadn’t really considered about that stage of the promotion, and something that’s likely to get a lot of people talking, is the fashion.
Think about it. Remember McGregor’s three-piece suits, his solid gold pocket watch that three men supposedly died making, his mink coat and his El Chapo shirt? Odds are, McGregor’s going to go all-out with his attire for all the media events.
It won’t be just a t-shirt and jeans affair.
Then, of course, we have the other half of the tango.
The man who loves money so much, he renamed himself ‘Money’.
Money can buy a lot of things, but as he proved with his eh… ‘unique’ attire at the fights in London on Saturday, it doesn’t necessarily buy you class.
When the leopard-print collar is the least gaudy part of the outfit, you know something’s terribly wrong.
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