Floyd Mayweather may have defeated Conor McGregor in the ring, but both fighter's left Las Vegas as pocketbook champions.
Before they touched gloves at the T-Mobile Arena, it was revealed that Mayweather would be taking home a $100 million fight check, while McGregor would be awarded a $30 million paycheque. Those already astronomical figures don't include pay-per-view revenue, which could see Mayweather net over $300 million, and McGregor net over $100 million. Not bad for one night's worth of work.
Except, as McGregor pointed out in a recent tweet, it wasn't one night's work. Aside from the long hours of training, McGregor and Mayweather also put a heck of a lot of time into trash talking one another and hyping up the fight. Something McGregor recognizes...in a bizarre way.
That's pretty much the weirdest possible way to say that you were happy with how you managed to drum up interest in a superfight by putting on a trash talking clinic that required Ric Flair levels of character acting.
McGregor didn't win the Money Belt, but he could certainly afford to buy one now if he wanted to. And it's all thanks to his fighting skills and showmanship.
