Mayweather Sr. says they will sue Conor McGregor if he fights dirty

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By Jim Dower: Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he will personally sue Conor McGregor if he chooses to fight dirty and foul Floyd Mayweather Jr. in their fight on August 26. There’s a lot of speculation about whether McGregor will elect to use his MMA skills to knockout or incapacitate Mayweather Jr. in their fight.

Some boxing and MMA fans think McGregor could gain a lot of respect if he were to lose the fight by a disqualification by using one of his UFC fighting techniques to hurt Mayweather. Floyd Sr. says he will not stand for that. He’ll launch a lawsuit on his son’s behalf against McGregor.

Mayweather said this week that McGregor will lose 90 percent of his contract if he chooses to foul him. He says it’s in the contract. Mayweather seemed pretty confident in discussing it that McGregor won’t dare foul him.

“He’s training good enough for a guy like this,” Mayweather Sr. told The Herd about Floyd Jr’s training for the McGregor fight. “When he goes in there with Floyd, that’s when he gets all the daylights whopped out of him. Even if he was fighting a 4 rounder, he ain’t going to win. Floyd’s fought many left-handers, no problem,” said Floyd Sr.

Floyd Sr. says Mayweather training just hard enough for him to beat McGregor. He wouldn’t say whether he’s training harder than usual. He thinks he’s doing more than enough to beat a fighter of McGregor’s level.

”That’s going to stop right there,” said Floyd Sr. about the possibility of McGregor fouling Mayweather with rabbit punches and other different fouls. “Then we’re going to throw a big suit at him. Of course well would. That’s now how we planned it. He came to box. That’s what he thought he could do. No, Mayweather didn’t discuss it. That’s me,” said Floyd Sr. in talking about him potentially suing McGregor if he fouls Mayweather. “This is something you can be sued.”

The fine that McGregor would take for fouling Mayweather will likely be enough of a deterrent to keep him honest in the fight. McGregor isn’t the type to want to throw away money. I think he’ll fight a clean fight. Besides, there’s a chance the two of them will face each other in a rematch in the octagon. Why would McGregor want to jeopardize a big money rematch by fouling Mayweather? It’s unlikely that McGregor will want to risk losing out on the rematch by hurting Mayweather by fouling him needlessly.

McGregor appears to truly believe that he can win this fight. He looked good in his sparring clips with Paulie Malignaggi. If McGregor is as good as the sparring video showed, he doesn’t’ need to foul Mayweather to try and gain an edge.

”Conor don’t have what it takes. Floyd is much faster than Conor. I’m faster than Conor right now today,” said Floyd Sr. “That was a joke. Neither one of them can fight,” said Floyd Sr. about the sparring between McGregor and Paulie Malignaggi. “He ain’t nothing. He can’t fight,” said Floyd Sr. about McGregor.

It’s going to be a good fight on August 26 between Mayweather and McGregor for as long as it lasts. It probably won’t go the distance though.

Mayweather vs. McGregor will be televised on Showtime PPV on August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets are reportedly still on sale.