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Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Make List of Top 10 Most Retweeted Sports Stars
December 5, 2017 | Posted by
Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather are among the top most retweeted sports stars of 2017. Twitter released its sports awards (per MMAjunkie), which noted that both McGregor and Mayweather landed in the mid-single digits among sports figure posts that were retweeted.
This, of course, comes due to the duo’s boxing match, which took place in August. McGregor lost by TKO in round ten. McGregor came on the board at #7 with the following (250,000 retweets):
THE FIGHT IS ON. pic.twitter.com/KhW0u3jRft
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) June 14, 2017
That said, Mayweather beat him out slightly with the #6 post, which had 271,000:
50 – 0
— Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) August 27, 2017