Easy money for Mayweather?
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a winner the day he signed the contract to come out of retirement to fight Conor McGregor in what could be the richest fight ever.
He’ll be a winner in the ring tonight, too, capping a career in which he won all 50 of his professional fights and helped sell more than $1 billion in pay-per-views.
There’s not a lot to analyze about a fight that is as much spectacle as it is competition.
The greatest defensive fighter of his time, Mayweather simply needs to do the kind of things that won him 49 previous fights to beat a UFC star in his first boxing bout.
Unless he suddenly gets old in the ring, Mayweather can then laugh all the way to the bank.
He’ll make some $200 million, and it will be easy money.
McGregor will be exposed for what he is — a very good MMA fighter who doesn’t have enough experience in a boxing ring to beat a top-10 fighter, much less someone with Mayweather’s skills.
It could go quick, or Mayweather could carry him for 12 ugly rounds. Either way, Mayweather will be in charge in a fight that will have a lot of people feeling buyer’s remorse Sunday morning.
It’s Mayweather’s last fight and he wants to go out with a bang.
He’ll do it by making easy work against a fighter who really has no business being in the ring with him in the first place.