After months of public Mayweather vs McgreGor Live negotiations, both Mayweather and McGregor took to social media to confirm the mega-fight. And in typical McGregor fashion, he broke the news while taking a sly dig at the undefeated boxer.Mayweather will make his anticipated return to the ring following a two-year hiatus. After racking up his 49th win back in 2015, the 40-year-old will now seek to improve his unblemished record to an incredible 50-0.While McGregor will announce his arrival on the boxing scene as he swaps the Octagon for the ring come August 26th. The 20,000 seated T-Mobile Arena is set to house the biggest sporting event of 2017 – heck the biggest fight in boxing.And just like the pay-per-view record, the gate receipt could also break records. 
That’s because tickets for Mayweather vs. McGregor are going for an absolute fortune. Just how much?Per Viagogo, the ticket sellers are asking for a staggering £14,000.We hope you’ve been saving…And that’s just the tickets. Hotel and travel are also astronomical figures.There’s a bloody good reason why this bout is being dubbed as the ‘billion dollar’ fight.If you can’t make Vegas, you can always fork out a shitload to watch it on PPV at 4am – For us UK and Irish folks that is.Any brave souls picking McGregor? Let us know.Conor McGregor will not be wearing a Reebok UFC fight kit for his boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He actually might not be donning Reebok at all.McGregor has no obligations to Reebok and is a free agent when it comes to apparel sponsorship, his manager Audie Attar told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “There’s a lot of open categories that we’ve been negotiating with brands, including Reebok,” Attar said. “We’ll see how that all plays out.Estimates have put McGregor earning somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million for the Aug. 26 bout against Mayweather at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The Mayweather vs McgreGor Live Stream ability to add more sponsors outside of his deal with Reebok as a UFC fighter will only add to that number. Attar would not say how much McGregor is making for the fight, because both sides have signed a confidentiality agreement.“Conor is well taken care of,” Attar said.McGregor, the UFC lightweight champion, and all UFC fighters have had to wear Reebok in the Octagon and during fight week since the UFC signed an apparel deal with the company in 2015. No other sponsors are allowed on a fighters’ shorts in the cage. McGregor also had an individual contract with Reebok as a UFC athlete, but that apparently will not extend to boxing, Attar said.“He’s currently a free agent with regard to athletic apparel,” Attar said. “We’re still in discussions with Reebok and other brands.”The boxing match is being promoted by Mayweather Promotions and distributed on pay-per-view by Showtime Boxing. The UFC is not an official promoter or distributor.Helwani asked Attar if McGregor could even wear a competing brand like Nike for the Mayweather fight, and the manager said that was a possibility.“It’s definitely a great opportunity for Conor and any brand we decide to align with,” Attar said. It promises to be a spectacle of unprecedented proportions.Two champions facing each other, but only one in his natural environment. A match that appears lopsided and an outcome that seems obvious. Widespread buzz and interest among the masses for a competition we never thought possible.Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor? No, silly.I’m talking Michael Phelps vs. Great White Shark.Maybe you missed that bit of news last week, lost in the clamor about boxing’s Mayweather and MMA’s McGregor sealing a deal to meet Aug. 26. Considering how the fight was first mentioned in March 2016 – when McGregor revealed he was willing to box the undefeated, five-division champion – it’s understandable that their announcement scored a knockout over Phelps vs. Jaws.But as dueling anomalies go, the events are closer to a draw.
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Phelps‘ return to racing catches us off guard, so soon on the heels of his retirement after last year’s Rio Olympics. But can you imagine being retired at 31? Even with a 1-year-old son to keep him busy, Phelps must be bored out of his mind.We don’t know who approached whom, but Discovery’s “Shark Week” programming will now include the world’s most-decorated Olympian vs. the world’s most-fearsome fish. Details are few and hard to imagine, but they weren’t necessary forthe network’s “Great Gold vs. Great White” press release:“They are one of the fastest and most efficient predators on the planet: Sharks. He is our greatest champion to ever get in the water: Michael Phelps. 39 world records. 23 Olympic golds. But he has one competition left to win. An event so monumental no one has ever attempted it before. The world’s most decorated athlete takes on the ocean’s most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark – the race is on!” Phelps will appear on another Shark Week program, too, “Shark School with Michael Phelps,” in which he gets a crash course on the animals. He discussed his Mayweather vs McgreGor PPV interest in a YouTube video released last weekWe just got off a plane from South Africa yesterday,” he said. “We were down there for about a week. That one was fun, doing some stuff with Shark Week. For me, sharks are like my No. 1 favorite animal in the world. Being able to see them face to face was pretty cool.”The race airs Sunday, July 23 at 8 p.m. Set your VCRs!At least you don’t have to weigh cost vs. curiosity. Discovery is included in basic-cable packages and won’t add a penny to your monthly bill. That’s not the case with sports’ other oddity this summer. Mayweather-McGregor is expected to approach the pay-per-view record of $99.99, set when Mayweather fought Manny Pacquiao in 2015. That bout also broke the marks for buys and revenue, with 4.6 million viewers generating more than $400 million. Mayweather is the PPV king, the main attraction in boxing’s all-time, three-most lucrative bouts. McGregor is the MMA’s biggest star and its most magnetic draw, an intoxicating mix of skill in the Octagon and promoter in the media.At first glance, this isn’t a fair fight. McGregor is confined to boxing rules, which eliminates the kicks, takedowns and submissions that take MMA to a different level. McGregor has defeated opponents via “Elbows” as well as “Rear Naked Choke,” moves that presumably will result in disqualification (but spice up the show) if he tries them against Mayweather. Endurance might be another issue for McGregor. His average MMA contest lasts 5:34 and he clearly was exhausted in a loss to Nate Diaz that went nine minutes. Conversely, Mayweather has gone the distance – 36 minutes – in 12 of his last 14 fights. He doesn’t start breathing hard until the later rounds, when McGregor is likely to be pooped.Of course, none of this will matter at the moment of truth on fight night. That’s when folks must decide between paying to witness the car wreck in live time, or waiting until the carnage is rebroadcast the following week. If history is an accurate guide, many will yield to temptation and watch the event as it unfolds.However, despite the hue and cry from boxing purists, MMA enthusiasts and sports fans in general, Mayweather-McGregor isn’t a sign of the apocalypse. For that matter, neither is Phelps-Great White. NFL speedsters Devin Hester and Chris Johnson raced a cheetah in separate contests during Nat Geo’s “Big Cat Mayweather vs McgreGor Live Week” in 2013 (Hester won and Johnson lost). The earth kept spinning.In the human vs. human category, Muhammad Ali fought Japanese pro wrestler Antonio Inoki to a draw in 1976. Aging boxer “Merciless” Ray Mercer needed only nine seconds to knock out UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia in 2009. Last year, former WWE superstar CM Punk was choked out by the UFC’s Mickey Gall, just 2:14 into the opening round. Each sport survived.In the upcoming exhibitions, my money is on the shark and Mayweather. They seem like sure things.But in a head-to-head competition, the battle of spectacles is too close to call.