Beware: Mcgregor will be announcing MayweatherVSMcgregor

TORONTO: As much as Mayweather is in Escape Mode from Conor, our studios just got notice of a big big hint that the big bout is near!

Floyd Mayweather might well fight UFC star Conor McGregor in an oddity of a boxing match; a future International Boxing Hall of Fame first-ballot shoe-in against an Irishman who lost three fights ago and might struggle to win a domestic title in the Noble Art, let alone a world crown.
Boxing aficionados would rightly scoff at the money-making idea, though many will probably buy it on the quiet – should it happen. The history boys, those most knowledgeable in all fistic matters, might have to watch between their fingers if it’s the fight that Mayweather uses to propel him beyond the historic 49-0 Rocky Marciano digits, to reach 50-0.

There are those who, should Mayweather win, will refuse to accept that as his record. But that record will be left standing long after they have gone, their dissenting voices covered by the sands of time.
But for Mayweather, wealthy beyond the average millionaire’s wildest dreams, the list of opponents is short. In boxing terms, there are perhaps three names remaining he can make big money against. The biggest would be a rematch with Manny Pacquiao, but there’s little interest in that by comparison to what happened when they first met, there is certainly less intrigue about the fight and there would be a good deal less money around for a second go-round.

The second and third plausible opponents fight in September in boxing’s biggest fight of the year (though Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko may have something to say about that), when Mexican star Saul Alvarez takes on middleweight kingpin Gennady Golovkin. Alvarez was already beaten out of sight by Mayweather – handed a ridiculous draw on one of the worst scorecards in modern boxing history – and Mayweather probably has no real business fighting at 160lbs to face Golovkin given that he’s turned 40 and never come close to weighing that amount in his career. Of course, those history boys would relish seeing him rise in weight, but GGG now needs to get by Alvarez and in light of recent results and performances that does not appear the given it was a year or so ago.