Conor McGregor has doubled down on his $100 million demand for a boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The two-weight UFC champion repeated his demands inside a New York City nightclub on Tuesday, according to a video published by TMZ Sports. McGregor is coming off a historic knockout over Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 last weekend.
“Much respect to Floyd,” McGregor says in the video. “He’s a solid businessman. What he’s been able to do — he’s a f—— animal at what he’s been able to do.
“[But] as far as real fighting — true, pure unarmed combat — Floyd don’t want none of this. Give Floyd a shout; tell him I’m coming. Tell him to run around Showtime offices. I want $100 million to fight him under boxing rules because he’s afraid of a real fight.”
The words were nearly identical to comments made by McGregor in August, when he fielded questions of a Mayweather fight during a news conference in Las Vegas.
“He’s running around the Showtime offices, begging those executives to come up with the $100 million cash he needs to fight me,” McGregor said then. “As soon as he gets my money, we can fight.”
McGregor (21-3) made a disclosed purse of $3 million for a nontitle welterweight bout against Nate Diaz at UFC 202 in August. It is the richest disclosed purse in mixed martial arts history. The New York State Athletic Commission has not disclosed his purse for UFC 205.
Those figures do not include any additional bonuses McGregor nets, particularly from pay-per-view. Before UFC 205, McGregor estimated his total profits of 2016 would be around $40 million.
In a TMZ video earlier this week, Mayweather said he considers any comparisons made between him and McGregor “total disrespect.”
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