Mayweather’s dad: Conor will ‘get totaled up’

LAS VEGAS — Like virtually every member of the boxing community, Floyd Mayweather Sr. believes Conor McGregor will be embarrassed Saturday night, finding it ludicrous the UFC lightweight champion vows to knock out his undefeated son in McGregor’s first-ever professional boxing match.

Though Floyd Mayweather Jr. takes every opportunity to praise McGregor’s fighting ability and create suspense, Mayweather Sr. doesn’t seem as concerned with building intrigue in a fight he views as a farce.

“Look, this right here, this is a clown fighting a real fighter,” said Mayweather gonna get totaled up.”

Even if Junior were replaced with Senior, the 64-year-old father and trainer said the result would be the same because he would be facing a fighter who never has boxed.

“I told him I’d knock him out,” Mayweather Sr. said before Wednesday’s press conference at MGM Grand. “I’ll tell him again, ‘After my son gets through knocking your ass out, I’ll do it next.’ ”

Former four-time boxing champion Shane Mosley, who lost a 12-round decision to Mayweather Jr. in 2010, initially suggested McGregor could only possibly win if Mayweather Sr., a for- Sr.. “And he’s mer boxer, took his son’s place.

“Now, that’s a fight,” Mosley said. “That’s a good fight where I don’t know who is going to win. I slightly pick Floyd Mayweather Sr., but I don’t know who is going to win that fight.”

The idea of McGregor entering a sport Mayweather Sr. built his life around, and taking out the best fighter of a generation, offended the former welterweight. Mayweather Sr. defended his sport as much as his son, stating McGregor wouldn’t stand a chance to cross over from mixed martial arts and defeat any accomplished boxer, such as Miguel Cotto or Canelo Alvarez.

“Those guys would kill Conor,” Mayweather Sr. said.