Mayweather vs. McGregor odds: Conor providing bettors a chance at value

American referee Robert Byrd is to oversee the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor on August 26.

WHAT IT IS: It’s hard for former HBO sports executive and veteran promoter Lou DiBella to withhold an opinion, and as someone who’s invested three decades of his life in boxing, he feels comfortable attending Mayweather-McGregor.

Conor McGregor is preparing to face Floyd Mayweather How can I order it?

Really, even if McGregor lands some heavy shots on Saturday, and goes 12 rounds with Mayweather, it will be widely viewed as a win for the UFC lightweight champ.

But Ward believes Mayweather’s achievements in the ring mean he has earned the right to fight who he wants.

“I’m taking the bigger risk”, Mayweather said, per MMA Junkie. He boasts a flawless professional record of 49-0. Indeed, if Mayweather deserved to lose a fight, it was his first bout with Castillo in 2002. “He lost before. But when a fighter has been dominating for 20-something years, never lost, everything is on the line”.

Mayweather is expected to pocket around £78.5m, or $100m if you’re from across the pond. “I’m his trusted broker, and since he knows that I take care of his people when they come to me, he wanted to tell everyone to do the same”. Even Mayweather-Pacquiao highlighted the differences between traditional (some would say dangerously traditional) and materialistic value systems.

But there is certainly a big reward, too. No reason to spend two cents on it, much less $100, when there’s a real super fight coming up a few weeks later between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez. We analyse the last three days as Mayweather and McGregor take over Las Vegas, resume the verbal warfare, and try to gain the slightest mental edge before they share the ring.

“I have to take my hat off to McGregor”. Friday evening, the original was deleted, then a repeat post was put up – presumably to keep it on his fans’ minds as they make a purchasing decison.

April 16, 2017 – While posting an image of him wearing boxing gloves, McGregor writes on Instagram: “Join me in the preparation of my next fight, being announced very soon”.

“My whole career, I am always told – I can’t do this – I can’t do that, I feel when someone tells you you can’t do something that’s when you must do something”.