Maybe for Floyd Mayweather’s fans the idea of nine digits no longer plays as an all-consuming fascination (he’s got an entourage to feed, after all), but even for them this idea of TMT fighting Conor McGregor has got to seem a little indulgent. And yet still they/we persist. Like a carload of easy fools, we go bounding down this all-too-familiar highway, ignoring the basic problems of such a match-up…namely, the fact that Conor McGregor takes off his shoes to fight, and Mayweather laces them up.
The difference in foot presentation, after all, is everything in prizefighting. If McGregor wears shoes, he ceases being Conor McGregor.