So we’re going through with the damn thing. It takes an elastic brain to fully wrap your mind all the way around the idea, but Conor McGregor — MMA’s pay-per-view Goliath — is going to fight Floyd Mayweather in a boxing ring on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas. All the speculation and doubt has graduated into something actual and unprecedented. McGregor is officially the most self-actualized athlete in the 21st century, a one-man reality shaper who turns “no” into “watch and see” just to make people contemplate infinity. Floyd? Floyd gets to squeeze another $200 million (give or take) from the public pot of curiosity.
Well, it’s going to happen — but what does Conor McGregor’s fight with Floyd Mayweather mean?
