LA gets Connor versus Mayweather

FLOYD Mayweather and Conor McGregor are set to meet each other for the first time on Tuesday, when the Los Angeles Staple Centre hosts the first of many press conferences in their world tour.

The highly anticipated boxing match between the duos was confirmed last month, as the two combat stars are scheduled to slug it out in Las Vegas on August 26.

The remaining cities to host the “Official Mayweather vs McGregor World Tour” have not yet been confirmed yet, but Tuesday’s meeting in California will be the first public meeting between the rivals, and tickets will be sold to the public.

The Staples Centre describes the press conference as “a star-studded event that will feature a live performance and special guests”.

It will be the first of many press conferences that will take place around the world in an effort to hype the fight up even more and truly make it a global attraction.

McGregor, the current UFC lightweight champion, will take part in his first professional boxing match against 49-0 Mayweather who is stepping out of retirement to headline at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena.

This is, however, not the first time that McGregor has taken part in a world tour.

During the year-long build-up of his UFC 194 featherweight title fight with Jose Aldo, he travelled with the Brazilian to eight different cities across five different countries in 11 days.

Throughout his tour of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro, Dublin and London, the Irishman verbally assaulted Aldo.

Many claim that was a huge factor in the former featherweight champion’s eventual 13-second loss to McGregor.

Many believe that the “Notorious” should do the same to Mayweather if he wants any chance of pulling off arguably the biggest upset in combat sport history.

Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman predicted in April that the fight would be an easy win for “Money” but that his head would be spinning from all the trash talk that would come his way from McGregor.

“Obviously McGregor has no chance in that fight,” Weidman said.

“But everyone’s still going to pay to watch it because it’s Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is going to talk.

“He’s going to say things to Floyd Mayweather that no one has ever said to him before. He’s going to have Floyd Mayweather’s head spinning. It’s going to be insane.

It’s going to be an amazing event.” SkySports/Yahoo Sport.