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MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR: A RETROSPECTIVE - PART 1: ALL THE THREADS COME TOGETHER
The end to the most unlikely rivalry in combat sports.
When reflecting on the Mayweather/McGregor fight nowadays, most people will say it was a meaningless cash grab that meant nothing to the parties involved beyond the impact it would have on their bank accounts. However, when you actually look at the histories of all the men involved, it becomes apparent that Mayweather/McGregor represented the culmination of a rivalry that outdated that of even Mayweather and Pacquiao.
And that’s the rivalry between Floyd and Dana.
Before he became the Baldfather we know today, Dana White was a bellhop and an aspiring boxer. During his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, he spoke at length about how the only thing he cared about was boxing at one point in his life and a professional boxer was the only thing he wanted to be. However after seeing the potential negative consequences that a life of fighting can have on a person, Dana moved into a more business orientated role. He started a white collar exercise class to teach guys to box, started an apparel company, began managing fighters (such as Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz) which then led to his purchase of the UFC and the rest is history.
However, during his boxing career, Dana was quite extensively involved with the Mayweathers during his time in the boxing business. He admits to watching Roger Mayweather’s gym wars and this is something Jeff Mayweather has commented on as well. Floyd himself has stated that Dana used to “carry [his] bags” and was “a little square guy” who used to hang around Floyd and Jeff. In fact, the pants that Floyd wore in his pro debut were sponsored by Dana’s company.
“I’ve been knowing Dana White for 21 years now,' Mayweather said. 'If you go back and look at my first fight, the patch on my trunks – Bullenbeisser -- I wore that for Dana White. He’s done a remarkable job and I’m proud of Dana.”
White, who ultimately managed mixed martial arts fighters Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, then owned the small company named after a German bulldog.
This is a relationship that would grow in significance years later, but first it’s importantly to briefly discuss the rise of Floyd Mayweather, just to provide context.
The Rise of Floyd Mayweather
The story of Floyd Mayweather is well publicised. A genuine, once-in-a-generation talent who was robbed of Olympic gold who rose to the top of the sport before becoming the biggest draw in the history of combat sports.
But one thing I think Floyd doesn’t get enough credit for is just how highly he valued himself. In 1999, he threatened to retire “retire if he didn't start making seven figures per fight” which was met with “nothing but chuckles” from the sporting world. He called a $12.5 contract from Lou DiBella a “slave contract”.
Floyd was calling out names like Oscar De La Shane Mosley and Kostya Tszyu and was getting nothing. Guys like Shane Mosley were blaming tooth aches as the reason they couldn’t fight Floyd.
Mayweather was also openly in dispute with his promoter Bob Arum, who he blamed for his relatively lacklustre drawing power in the mid-2000s. Floyd began making waves gradually, when he fought fan favourite Arturo Gatti, trashing the universally respected fighter verbally, before putting on perhaps the best performance of his career.
However, Floyd’s best career move which really launched his career forward was his decision to buy himself out of his contract with Arum.
Arum’s lowballing of Floyd was really put into perspective when you consider the following:
Arum said while Mayweather would have taken the $8 million to fight Margarito, he asked for a $10 million guarantee to fight opponents such as Miguel Cotto and Ricky Hatton, when Arum was only willing to guarantee $7 million. Arum said Mayweather also asked for $20 million to fight De La Hoya, a fight Arum said he wasn't interested in participating in.
'That's not in the cards,' Arum said. 'He wants $20 million for the De La Hoya fight? It's not there. Sometimes, my man, you gotta know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. We'll talk about things down the road.'
To put things in context – Floyd earned $8 million fighting Carlos Baldomir in his fight free from Arum and then earned $25 million when he fought Oscar.
Around the time that Floyd was really coming into his own, another massive sports juggernaut was beginning to make waves among mainstream audiences – the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The Ultimate Fighter television show on Spike in 2005 really reinvigorated the brand and put them on course to really challenge the top boxing promotions as the preeminent combat sporting organisation in the United States.
In 2006, this was made apparent – UFC 66: Liddell vs Ortiz did 1.05 million buys. The most bought boxing PPV of that year was Oscar De La Hoya vs Ricardo Mayorga, which did 925,000. Even the build up for UFC 66 was massive, with Dana predicting it would do 1.2 million buys and people predicting that 2006 was the year that the UFC would “choke out” boxing. Furthermore, This several networks, who had otherwise only really promoted boxing in terms of combat sports, began to look into MMA
“Showtime will run its first MMA on Feb 10, featuring Renzo Gracie and Frank Shamrock. And HBO is dipping its big toe in the warm waters in 2007, and will run four MMA programs.”
Dana himself was quoted in that article saying:
“My opinion is, once Oscar is gone, boxing’s in a lot of trouble, unless another star breaks soon, which I don’t see coming. We’ll be top dog once Oscar leaves.”
Sure enough, that other star emerged – none other than Dana’s old associate, Floyd Mayweather.
The Fight to Save Boxing
The “boxing is dead” crowd have been around as long as the sport itself. But they were particularly obnoxious in the mid-2000s. Mike Tyson’s career was winding down, the Heavyweight division had eroded away from the glorious period of the 1990s, the sport’s biggest star, Oscar De La Hoya, fought very infrequently. Meanwhile, the UFC was growing in popularity at an alarming rate and other MMA promotions were springing up.
By 2007, it had been 3 years since boxing had seen a fight reach 1 million buys. So thus, the mega fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather was promoted heavily by HBO. They created a 4 part, behind the scenes style documentary called 24/7 which revolutionized fight promotion. Thus, the bout between De La Hoya and Mayweather was dubbed “The Fight to Save Boxing”. Even this, however, was not enough for some cynics in the media, as the following article proves.
The only thing 24/7 lacks, then, is what When We Were Kings had in spades: historical importance to match the spectacle. Since De La Hoya has so little chance to win, the stakes of the fight are much lower than the promotional bluster would lead you to believe. As a result, De La Hoya/Mayweather 24/7 comes off less as a celebration of two great fighters than as a last-gasp attempt by HBO to revive its flagship sport.
A sure sign of boxing's growing irrelevance came immediately prior to the second episode of 24/7, when Ultimate Fighting Championship stud Chuck Liddell made a cameo on Entourage, a role that surely would have gone to a boxer as recently as five years ago. As great a gift to viewers as De La Hoya/Mayweather 24/7 is, even HBO knows where the future lies.
Sure enough, the fight would go on to be the biggest in the history of boxing, due in large part to Mayweather’s antics – generating 2.4 million PPV buys, a number that the UFC (let alone any other MMA promotion) has been unable to come close to beating, 11 years later.
During the promotion of Mayweather/De La Hoya, an interesting thing happened - Floyd Mayweather took notice of MMA’s growing popularity and took time out to trash it. Whether these were his genuine feelings in regard to the product or an attempt to further solidify his new, villainous role by drawing the ire of another audience is anyone’s guess. But this is what he said:
“This fight is good for boxing. It’s not like the sport is going anywhere. Like I said before, man, to be honest — UFC and shit ain’t nothing but a fucking fad. If they feel Chuck Liddell is so good, we should take Chuck Liddell — we don’t need the best heavyweight, we just need to take a good heavyweight — and let Chuck Liddell fight a good heavyweight, under Mayweather Promotions, and if Chuck Liddell beats him, I’ll give him $1 million out of my own pocket. That stuff ain’t nothing but a fad. Most of those guys, they couldn’t make it in boxing, so they had to turn to something else. So they have all this different type of fighting comes out. We’re like gladiators from the past. Why you think the sport of boxing’s been here for hundreds and hundreds of years? And they’re trying to do anything they can do to knock our sport. Boxing is the best sport in the world. Boxing’s here to stay. And boxing is blood, sweat and tears.”
Sure enough, Dana responded:
“I used to talk like Floyd Mayweather when I was involved in boxing. I talked just like him, until I educated myself about this sport. These guys are amazing athletes, Floyd Mayweather is one of the best boxers ever, (and) Sean Sherk will whoop his ass in under two minutes. Any day that Mayweather wants to put his money and his ass where his mouth is, I'm ready. If he wants to step up, let's do it. I'm willing to put together a fight for Sean Sherk and Floyd Mayweather with numbers that would make sense for Floyd. And I guarantee you he would not accept it. Floyd Mayweather would never fight in the UFC because he would get his head ripped off.'
During the De La Hoya/Mayweather fight, Sherk and Dana actually sat ringside
Dana continued his tirades against Floyd, saying:
““If Floyd is serious and he seriously wants to do this and he’s not shooting his mouth off, I’ll make him an offer that is definitely worth his while, I don’t think he’d last three minutes with Sherk. He’d be beaten in three minutes, and pretty likely in under a minute, and it would probably be by stoppage or tap-out.”
Sure enough, the media only threw fuel on the fire of the UFC/boxing debate. Remember that famous ESPN segment? And look at the two stars they picked – Floyd Mayweather and Chuck Liddell. Floyd would later apologise for his comments, however
A curious thing happened though. In his first fight since the Mayweather vs Dana/Sherk rivalry began, Sherk popped for performance enhancing drugs after beating Hermes Franca. Just like that, any idea of him fighting Floyd was dead in the water. Floyd would go on to have another PPV smash hit with his KO victory over Ricky Hatton and then subsequently retire. Sherk would return to the sport only to get brutalized by BJ Penn. Chuck Liddell, who was featured as representing the UFC in that ESPN segment, got knocked out by Rampage and never again was able to recapture old glory…not got lack of trying though. But Floyd persevered and the rivalry with Dana continued, long after guys like Chuck and Sherk faded from the spotlight.
Dana didn’t really have a star to compare directly to Floyd after Chuck and Sherk both fell out of grace so abruptly. I don’t recall BJ ever being mentioned as someone who could fight Floyd (at least I can find nothing in the media about it, in fact Penn trained with Floyd Sr) and guys like Frankie would never promote themselves like that. Guys like Anderson and Jones engaged in back and forth with Floyd, but ultimately they were too big to really entice the public into pondering the age old “who would win?” debate.
Still, this did not stop Dana from publicly feuding with Floyd at seemingly every turn.
Dana and Floyd through the years
Dana seemed to make it his business to criticise Floyd at pretty much every turn throughout his career.
In 2009, Floyd Mayweather returned from a 2-year retirement to utterly dismantle a then P4P number 2 Juan Manuel Marquez.
Dana, in response, said this:
'It sucked just like I thought it would, just like I knew it would. It was a horrendous. It went to a 12-round boring decision.'
In 2011, even when supporting Floyd when he knocked out Victor Ortiz with some controversy, he concluded the interview saying this:
“I’m the first one to go out and smash Floyd. Cuz I think Floyd should take [the Pacquiao] fight. Manny Pacquiao’s never tested positive for anything. You’re not the athletic commission, Floyd. Who are you to start demanding all this other stuff. Right?”
The “other stuff” Dana referred to was USADA drug testing. Which the UFC now do. In retrospect, not a great look for the Goof.
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In 2012, Dana went on UFC on Fuel to criticise Floyd for comments made on Twitter. This caused a response from Leonard Ellerbe. Dana then responded to Ellerbe.. Curiously, when Jeremy Stephens got on Twitter and called Floyd a number of slurs (including the n-word). Curiously, Dana remained silent on this.
Floyd changed his tune in regard to MMA, for what it’s worth. He stated in 2013 he wished to promote MMA fighters and that Dana was “a cool guy”.
In 2013, Dana introduced women into the UFC after seeing the potential box office drawing power in one particular young champion – Ronda Rousey. By 2014, it was clear that Ronda was shaping up to be a big star. And sure enough, the Mayweather/UFC feud had fresh fuel for the fire. In March of 2014, Rousey publicly stated she could defeat Floyd Mayweather in MMA fight. Joke or not, the media kept asking the question and Dana was the first one to concur with the idea that his new star would “hurt” Mayweather.
Floyd being Floyd, when asked about Rousey said “I don’t even know who he is”. The rivalry escalated and included such things as Ronda insulting Floyd at the Espy Awards, Floyd comparing his drawing ability to hers, Ronda criticising Floyd’s apparent illiteracy and so on, ad nauseam.
However, by 2015 it was clear that Floyd’s in-ring career was winding down, as the Ronda Rousey hypetrain was going into overdrive. In September, Floyd retired with a win over Andre Berto.
As such, Ronda had the opportunity to take the baton from Floyd and solidify herself as the top draw in combat sports for years to come. It finally looked like Dana would have a cashcow that outlived his long-time rival.
This quote from a Forbes article summarises this idea well:
Mayweather and Rousey are the two biggest stars and draws in their respective sports of boxing and mixed martial arts. They are also both master promoters for their fights, which require fans to pay $60 and up to watch on pay-per-view. Mayweather's career is nearing its closing stages, as he insists his September bout with Andre Berto will be his final fight. Rousey is only four years into her MMA career and potentially could rule the sport for the next 5-6 years.
Unfortunately for Dana and the UFC, the curse of Mayweather struck again. In her next fight in November, Ronda was brutally knocked out by Holly Holm.. Floyd had a relatively subdued reaction to Rousey’s loss, effectively killing the notion of their “feud” even to the most ignorant of casual fans.
But Dana had another star waiting in the wings – a young, cocky Irish kid who was not unlike Mayweather.
Dana’s last hope
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Throughout Dana’s feud with Floyd, fans and critics accused the long time promotor of being simultaneously shitting on Floyd while also wanting a fighter on his stable to embody that same bad guy, big money brand image that Money Mayweather embodied. Well, in 2013, he got his wish, when a young, brash Irish prospect named Conor McGregor was signed to the UFC. I don’t need to go into detail about Conor’s rise – he was an exciting knockout artist with an equally captivating presences in the media. Before long, he was shaping up to be the UFC’s next big star alongside Ronda Rousey. Rather than having to be asked by the media, Conor was -more than happy to bring up Floyd with absolutely zero provocation or question](https://www.esquire.com/sports/interviews/a34377/conor-mcgregor-interview-0515/?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_168962181).
If you put me face-to-face with Floyd Mayweather—pound-for-pound boxing's best—if I fought Floyd, I would kill him in less than thirty seconds. It would take me less than thirty seconds to wrap around him like a boa constrictor and strangle him.'
However, Conor’s desire to fight Floyd allegedly goes back to 2014, when Conor was engrossed in the hype for Mayweather/Maidana II and declared “one day I’m gonna fight that guy”.
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Sure enough, the media added fuel to the fire of the Mayweather/McGregor rivalry as that often replayed Conan segment will attest.
When Ronda suffered her first loss, Conor took the reins and generated 1.2 million buys in his 13 second KO win over long time champion Jose Aldo. Though one of Dana’s stars had fallen, McGregor’s had only just peaked.
In late 2015, Floyd took notice of Conor and had this to say:
I don't really know the McGregor guy; never seen him fight. I heard his name actually from one of the runners that works for our company…He told me about the guy McGregor. They say he talk a lot of trash and people praise him for it, but when I did it, they say I'm cocky and arrogant. So biased! Like I said before, all I'm saying is this, I ain't racist at all, but I'm telling you racism still exists.
Conor didn’t take kindly to these comments.
Then, the Mayweather curse struck again. Following an unexpected submission loss to Nate Diaz, Conor McGregor’s hypetrain seemed to derail. A second round stoppage loss to a long-time gate keeper with double digit losses is never a good look, let alone when said opponent had only 11 days notice.
Regardless, this is when things changed for McGregor. As I said before, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather are cut from a similar cloth - they are both incredibly driven men who briefly flirted with an early retirement due to not getting outcomes they hoped for and who are happy to play the villain and make enemies simply to get more notoriety.
But Conor and Floyd were also alike in their tendency to rebel against promotors and higher ups when they felt it suited them. Dana White and the Fertittas attempted to organise a rematch between Conor and Nate for UFC 200, their flagship event. Conor refused his media obligations and was subsequently pulled from the event before “retiring” via a message of Twitter. Eventually however, the rematch was made at UFC 202 and Conor won a hard fought decision in a back-and-forth fight, avenging his loss and breaking the Mayweather curse.
Following this, McGregor’s career was back on track. He began to once again call out Floyd. Following his, Conor dominated Eddie Alvarez in perhaps the most impressive showing of his career.. His stock was never higher – he argued his case for equity in the UFC and attained a boxing license. Rumours swirled.
Most experts doubted it. Most casual fans wanted it. Most hardcore fans dreaded it. The two began to call eachother out, more and more in the media.
But eventually, it came into fruition – Floyd announced it, Conor announced it and this sub made a whole thread about it.
The Mayweather/McGregor fight meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. But I think the significance of it gets significantly downplayed overall. Sure, money and fan demand was the driving factor, as in pretty much all major prizefights, but there was a lot more at stake for a lot of the key players involved.
The fight represented the culmination of a long-time rivalry between Dana and Floyd that began in 2007, even before Manny Pacquiao was ever mentioned in the same sentence as Floyd. These two men went from business associates in Vegas, to promotional rivals at the top of combat sports in only a few short years. This fight made them embody both those roles simultaneously. After the years of Dana’s champions being held up against Floyd – Sherk, Silva, Jones and then Ronda – it was finally time for the biggest monetary attraction Dana had ever had on his roster to take the leap that no one else had even attempted.
MayMac was simultaneously the most farcical, nonsensical matchup imaginable, but also the only possible way this decade long feud could have possibly ended. Had you told someone in the mid-1990s that Dana White and Floyd Mayweather would be the two business powers behind one of the biggest combat sporting events in combat sports history, they would not have believed you.
When discussing the importance of the fight for Conor, a lot of people just seem to think that it was a win-win for him and the fight meant nothing. That it was for the money and nothing else. But they never seem to consider what he had to gain from a win.
Professionally and in terms of monetary success, Floyd is everything Conor is trying to be – utterly self-reliant, undefeated and in control of his own destiny. Floyd, for the entire second half of his career, had no bosses. He could take the fights he wanted, make the career moves he saw fit to make and had entire TV networks bend over backwards to appease him. For all his fame and fortune, Conor was getting a fraction of the pay he likely deserved for his drawing power. He got bodied by the Fertittas when he attempted to rebel in the lead up to UFC 200 and his requests for ownership were getting laughed off by Dana and the upper management of WME.
Make no mistake about it – a win over Floyd Mayweather would’ve given Conor more than he ever dreamed of, beyond even a more lucrative rematch. Had he sparked Floyd, he would have set himself up for stardom beyond any MMA fighter and any modern boxer, providing him the leverage necessary to truly claim his own destiny. WME would’ve unquestionably given him equity, if not co-promoted with his “McGregor Sports and Entertainment” brand. Dana himself acknowledged that if McGregor were to have knocked Floyd out, he’d be the biggest athlete on the planet.
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But for Floyd it was just another fight. Not his biggest, nor his most dangerous, or his most significant. Just a final chance to get some extra money and round up his record. While a loss might have been devastating for his legacy, any loss Floyd would’ve suffered post 2007 would’ve been met with a massive amount of media attention so in that way it wasn’t unusual compared to the sort of insane pressure Floyd would normally experience.
Regardless, with so many interconnecting threads connecting all these bombastic, larger than life figures together, I fail to see how this fight could’ve been so meaningless in retrospect.
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In any case, this is the first part in a 3 part examination of Mayweather/McGregor in retrospect. Part 2 will be posted shortly.
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