Conor McGregor has already likened himself to the great Floyd Mayweather Jr in the wake of his historic victory over Jose Aldo.
The new featherweight world champion clocked up a record $10.1million in gate receipts and he told the world he was chasing down the $72m that Mayweather’s ‘Fight of the Century’ took on the night he fought Manny Pacquiao.
Some fans have already compared the brash 27-year-old to the American boxer who remains unbeaten after 49 fights and with 12 world titles he is considered one of the all-time greats.
Conor mcgregor is the like the mayweather of mma haha
— Alexis Smith (@younglexman) December 7, 2015
But while some of the world might be getting carried away with the success of the slick-talking, big punching Irishman, the guys down at the Mayweather Boxing Club certainly aren’t.
The club’s official YouTube channel filmed boxers, trainers and even the legendary Roger Mayweather asking whether McGregor is the “new Mayweather”.
There was a surprising amount of love for the Notorious, but as you can imagine nobody trumps their boy Money Mayweather.
Fighter Chris Pearson said: “Hell no, he ain’t no Floyd Mayweather, you’ve got to make a billion to be the next Floyd Mayweather.”
But undefeated boxer Luis Arias added: “I think he has the possibility to do it. He took a couple of pieces from Floyd’s book and it’s working.
“He’s sticking up for what he said, and he’s performing and he’s knocking everyone out. As long as he keeps doing that it will keep working.”
