Conor McGregor appears to be taking inspiration Mayweather vs McGregor Live from the Rocky movies ahead of his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather – and has been quoting series villain Ivan Drago in an attempt to intimidate his opponent.The trash talk between the two men is beginning to heat up, with the super-fight less than two months away.But McGregor has taken things up a notch or two, by channelling the cold-hearted Russian villain of Rocky IV.The Irish UFC superstar this weekend shared another video from inside his training camp, along with the caption: “If he dies. He dies.”That’s just what Drago says at the beginning of the fourth Rocky film, while beating Carl Weathers’ character Apollo Creed to a pulp.
Despite McGregor’s apparent affection for Drago, the real-life Rocky has come out in support of the two-weight UFC world champion.Sylvester Stallone has tipped McGregor to win the Las Vegas showdown, and claimed that the much-criticised fight is in fact good for the sport of boxing.You know who’s gonna win. You know who’s gonna win!” he told TMZ Sports this week.“I only got the underdog. It’s great for boxing. [McGregor]’s a real life Rocky. But then again … I live infantasy.“[Mayweather]’s gonna get hurt,” he added. “Nah, I’m only kidding. Let’s put it this way guys, it’s never been done before. Never been done before! So you never know.
Gervonta Davis has been given one hell of an opportunity by his mentor because Floyd Mayweather has seemingly given the IBF junior lightweight champion the chance to shine in the co-main event ahead of the biggest sporting event of 2017.Setting the table for the spectacle that is Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, Davis will get the chance to shine under the brightest spotlight of his young career to date. McGregor vs Mayweather Live always knew that Mayweather’s protege would likely feature on the card at some point but Davis confirmed to TMZ that he will, in fact, be one half of the co-main event on August 26.Yes,” he said when asked if he’d be on the undercard. “I’m the co-main event.”
Davis is 18-0 in professional boxing, with his most recent victory coming in London, where he stopped Liam Walsh in the third round and the southpaw is currently ranked as the sixth best junior lightweight in the world by The Ring magazine.”It feels great,” Davis added. “Just having my hometown back me, Under Armour back me and Floyd Mayweather back me and now I’m on the undercard, it feels amazing.An opponent I has yet to be selected but ‘Tank’ remains typically confident regardless of who will be standing opposite him next month.”There’s a few names that they’ve mentioned,” he said. “And I believe that both of them will get knocked out.”Pay-per-view records are expected to shatter for the card, which will be promoted by Mayweather Promotions and feature several other fighters from the 49-0 great’s stable.
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Mayweather is heavily favoured to defeat the Irishman, who has never competed in boxing before and while it’s been almost six years since ‘Money’ has stopped an opponent, Davis expects that to change at the T-Mobile Arena.”I believe that Floyd will play with him [McGregor] and then knock him out,” Davis said.The highly anticipated media tour with Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor to promote their Aug. 26 boxing match begins Tuesday, and UFC President Dana White is expecting utter madness.“It’s going to be a (expletive) (expletive)show,” White told reporters following Saturday’s UFC 213 event in Las Vegas. “You know that. Absolute (expletive)show. So, I don’t know. It’s going to be crazy.
The entire tour to promote the fight between the 49-0 Mayweather vs McGregor Live Stream boxing legend, Mayweather, and UFC lightweight champion McGregor will air on FS2. It kicks off Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. It heads north of the border to Toronto on Wednesday, then proceeds to New York on Thursday before concluding overseas in London on Friday.White said he will be accompanying McGregor on every stop but admitted he’s not entirely sure how the whole scene is going to play out, especially with so many unpredictable characters involved.I think it’s going to be a hybrid of the boxing press conferences and UFC press conferences,” White said. “I don’t know. I think it’s going to be more like a boxing press conference than it is our press conferences. You know how mine are. No bull(expletive).
We walk in, and we sit down and, ‘What’s up? Who has the first question,’ and we get it rolling. I think there’s going to be a lot more bull(expletive) in this one.“I’m going to sit there with a mic, and when you ask me a question I will answer it. I’m not going to get up and give any speeches or do anything like that. I think Conor and I will come in, Conor and I will sit down, and we’ll answer questions when asked questions. I think that the rest of the people that are going to come in – I think there’s going to be a lot of people that come in and talk and have speeches.The hype for the tour is overwhelming, White said, with more than 30,000 tickets scooped up for the Los Angeles and Brooklyn stops alone. Tallies have yet to be recorded for Toronto and London, but it’s likely they will follow suit, which should make for some chaotic moments.
“Staples Center is sold out, and by sold out, I mean we did tickets and there’s no more seats left,” White said. “Barclays (Center) sold out. We had to get a bigger venue in Toronto, and we’re doing Wembley in England. It’s going to be crazy.”For more on “The Money Fight: Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor,” check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.Does he have boxing skills? Yes he does. I was surprised. We moved around throwing punches but we weren’t trying to take each other’s heads off. For an MMA fighter, Conor has some real boxing skills.His counter left hand caught me once or twice, before I figured it out. That’s his best punch because he’s got good timing. But he keeps his whole head in front of his body, and you can’t do that against Mayweather. I assume they will work on that.
He told me that he was an amateur boxer, and I could Mayweather vs McGregor Live Fight see that, because he knows what he’s doing. I thought at that point: If McGregor focuses on only boxing for six months he will shock a lot of people. He needs to focus on moving his feet and throwing punches in combinations.Conor is a cool guy – nothing but respect. He’s very humble and it was a pleasure to work with him. I sparred him when he was preparing for a rematch with Nate Diaz [last year], because I’m also a tall southpaw. This was the time that the McGregor-Mayweather talk started.He’s got the power to knock Mayweather out. The likes of Gennady Golovkin have explosive power in their punches but Conor has consistent power in every single punch from the first moment to the end of the fight.