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UFC superstar Conor McGregor claims to have “carried” one of his superfight opponents. The 32-year-old retired UFC champion posted on the third anniversary of his crossover boxing spectacle against Floyd Mayweather Jr. that he “carried” the undefeated boxing superstar.
McGregor posted, “3 years ago today I carried Floyd for his final boxing match. Wow time flies when you’re stacking cheddar. Happy retirement champ.”
In reality, though, Mayweather stopped McGregor in the 10th round of that fight.
While McGregor enjoyed much more success than most boxing pundits predicted he would during the first few rounds of the fight, Mayweather slowly took over the boxing contest with his sharper and cleaner punches until he finally stopped McGregor in the 10th round.
Mayweather Made Same Claim About McGregor
Mayweather made the same claim about the fight.
The 43-year-old stunned the combat sports industry when he suggested that he had carried McGregor that far into the boxing match because he wanted to entertain fans and potentially set up a lucrative superfight rematch.
“For the Conor McGregor fight, I didn’t really train,” Mayweather said per Drink Champs. All I did was do push-ups and sit-ups, boxed a few times, hit the bag a few times. Sometimes I wouldn’t go to the gym for a week.”
Mayweather stopped short of saying he “carried” McGregor in the fight, but the American’s explanation of what happened that night was exactly that by definition.
“You have to give the people a show, so I gave the people a show. If I wanted to go out there and f*** him up and blaze him right out the gate, I could’ve did that,” Mayweather said.
Mayweather claimed that he didn’t knock out McGregor faster because he wanted to set up a lucrative rematch.
“But my thing is this, if I would’ve did that, then it wouldn’t be probably a part two,” Mayweather said.
McGregor Probably Hoping for Rematch
With his Instagram post, McGregor is likely just poking fun at Mayweather’s explanation of why the boxing champ seemed to have so much more trouble with McGregor in the fight.
After all, it was Mayweather’s 50th professional boxing match and just McGregor’s first time operating as a prizefighter under boxing’s much more limited ruleset.
Moreover, the Irishman probably hopes a post like that will help goad the retired boxing legend into a superfight rematch someday soon.
The two superstars have both expressed interest in competing in a rematch at various times over the last three years but nothing has yet materialized on the front.
While the Irishman is retired from MMA, McGregor could be headed back into a boxing ring soon against either Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, or Oscar De La Hoya.
McGregor has been tied to all three stars in one way or another in recent months and would seem to offer enough clout on his own to warrant a lucrative boxing match against at least one of them.
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