McGregor blasts Mayweather for race comments
Conor McGregor: “Floyd Mayweather, don’t ever bring race into my success again. I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence.”
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently stated that racism still existed in combat sports and pointed to Conor McGregor as an example of how the media treats the UFC champion versus how they treat him for the way they act. Until today McGregor had stayed quiet about the comments, and blasted Mayweather on Facebook
In an epic social media post the likes of which only The Notorious could unleash, UFC featherweight champ Conor McGregor gave thanks for recent praise, cleared up some lingering rumors and lashed out directly at boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, offering to face off in combat as long as Money is willing to take a mere 20 percent of the purse.
1. Rolling Stone, thank you for putting me as one of your top 25 sex symbols of 2015! My Mother will be delighted and proud!
2. ESPN, FOX, BT Sports, MMA Fighting, Yahoo, MMA Junkie and Sherdog thank you all for awarding me fighter of the year 2015!
I appreciate all the hardworking media and their love and commitment to the sport is truly valued.
3. Fighters Only MMA Awards, thank you for the nominations for Fighter of the Year, KO of the Year, International Fighter of the year.
I will be in Las Vegas to attend the event and collect all my awards.
4. Floyd Mayweather, don’t ever bring race into my success again. I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood.
In my family’s long history of warfare there was a time where just having the name ‘McGregor’ was punishable by death.
Do not ever put me in a bracket like this again.
If you want we can organise a fight no problem.
I will give you a fair 80/20 split purse in my favour seen as your last fight bombed at every area of revenue.
At 27 years of age I now hold the key to this game.
The game answers to me now.
5. Media instigators/An Garda Siochana.
I apologise for having the air-soft in public. I was simply rehearsing for a potential upcoming film role.
I understand that the more traffic a story can get the more revenue it generates. So I understand and respect that the media must create these stories and these situations even if at times it is at other people’s expense.
We’ve all got to eat. And I eat well.
So I will not complain.
6. My next fight.
What can I say, it’s just another night of easy work for me.
I don’t just own the game. I run it too.