Most entertaining quotes from 1st Mayweather-McGregor press conference
The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor world tour got underway Tuesday with an entertaining, yet weird, press conference in front of a sold-out Staples Center crowd in Los Angeles.
Below are the best quotes from the superstar fighters' brief media availability. If nothing else, this should certainly be a fun few weeks leading up to the Aug. 26 superfight.
McGregor
"Somebody's 0 has got to go"
- On Mayweather's undefeated record
"He's in a fucking tracksuit. He can't even afford a suit anymore. The Rolls is a 2012 outside. He is fucked. There's no other way about it."
- Poking fun at Mayweather's attire/tax problems
"As far as the fight, he will be unconscious inside four rounds. The movement, the power, the ferociousness, he has not experienced this. He's fought people who have shied away from him. I don't fear him. I don't fear this limited set of fighting. This is a limited set of rules that makes this half a fight - a quarter of a fight. This isn't a true fight. If this was a true fight, it wouldn't even take one round."
- Reiterating his fight prediction
"How's this suit look? ... If you zoom in on the pinstripe it says 'fuck you.'"
- And he wasn't kidding
"I'm just enjoying it. All these rules, all these restrictions, it doesn't phase me. It amuses me."
- On specifications outlined by Mayweather
"Shout-out to my little son, Conor Jr., watching back home. I'm a daddy now. He is the perfect motivation for me, to go and once again conquer the supposed unconquerable. My little boy, to provide for him, and to set him up for life, what more motivation could you need?
- Message to his first son, who was born in May
"August 26, this man will be unconscious. He's too small, he's too frail. That's it. What more can I say? He can catch the shot, as well. I don't mind that. If he catches the shot in a glove, his brain will still be rattled."
- On Mayweather
"He's got greedy. He could have been 49-0, rode off into the sunset. Trust me, he got greedy here. That was a big mistake. You misadvised him. You should have kept him retired. It's your fault."
- To Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Mayweather
"I don't give a fuck if it's a ring, I don't give a fuck if it's an Octagon. Put me in there and I'm gonna kick ass."
- To McGregor's comment on a "real fight"
"I'm the IRS, and I'm gonna tax your ass."
- Response to McGregor saying his $100 million was for "the tax man"
"He look good for a seven-figure fighter. He look good for an eight-figure fighter. But motherfucker, I'm a nine-figure fighter. And y'all know what? This bitch made $3 million his last fight. But we know that's training camp money for me."
- On difference between MMA and Boxing payouts
"We know Mr. Tapout like to quit. And you will wear that white flag. You can choose which way you want to go, and I'm guaranteeing you this: You're going out on your face, or you going out on your back. Now which way you wanna go?
- Referring to McGregor's submission loss to Nate Diaz
"God don't make mistakes. And God only made one thing perfect, and that's my boxing record."
- On 49-0 career record