Floyd Mayweather Jr.: ‘I’m The Face of MMA’

– During a Facebook Live interview with Brian Campbell (transcript via mmafighting.com), Floyd Mayweather Jr. spoke about a fight with Conor McGregor, claiming that he’sthe face of both boxing and MMA…

“I’m not just the face of boxing, I’m the face of mixed martial arts also. And I’m not an MMA fighter but I do support all contact sports. I haven’t seen an MMA fight in a while but anytime I see an MMA fighter that wants to take a picture with me, I’m gonna take a picture with them because they go through a lot. Fighters go through a lot to get to a certain level and MMA fighters go through a lot just like boxers go through a lot. I want to tell everybody this, right now. Conor McGregor, do he want to fight? Absolutely not. I’m trying to see if he really want to fight but we can’t make the fight happen because he’s not his own boss. And I want the world to know this: just a fight, two fights ago, he was [knocks table twice] tapping out. He was just [knocks table twice] quitting. A lot of fighters – legendary fighters, fighters of today, MMA fighters – everybody says, ‘Floyd Mayweather do us wrong.’ Call me what you want to call me but I’m not a quitter. I don’t quit. I’m an old dude. We believe in working smarter not harder, and the best business move for me is Conor McGregor.”