We'd gone the entire weekend without discussing Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao in an MMA context, but that national crisis has since been corrected. Last week, UFC featherweight title challenger Conor McGregor told Esquire magazine that he would "kill" Mayweather in less than 30 seconds in an MMA fight. McGregor later added that he'd "wrap around him like a boa constrictor and strangle him".
Mayweather was told these remarks by TMZ Sports, and he responded in kind by calling McGregor a "joke" and that he doesn't take him seriously.
"I don't take that dude seriously.