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Is Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor hurting the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch?

LAS VEGAS -- As she sat in front of a group of reporters in a quiet conference room, attempting to make one last sales pitch for Saturday's rematch between unified light heavyweight world titlist Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev, Main Events CEO Kathy Duva simply sighed and shook her head as she felt the wheels coming off the train.

One question about the recently announced fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor turned into two, which turned into three and, well, you know how that goes.

"Can we talk about this fight," Duva hopelessly asked the assembled media.