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| Date | August 26, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mayweather Jr. wins via 10th-round TKO[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, billed and promoted as The Money Fight[2][3][4] and The Biggest Fight in Combat Sports History,[5] was a professional crossover boxing match between undefeated eleven-time five-division boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and two-division mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion and, at the time, UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. The fight took place at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, on August 26, 2017, at the light middleweight limit (154 lbs; 69.9 kg). It was scheduled for twelve rounds and recorded the second highest pay-per-view buy rate in history, behind Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.[6]
Mayweather extended his professional boxing undefeated streak to 50 victories and 0 defeats (50–0), surpassing the 49–0 record of Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano, after defeating McGregor by technical knockout (TKO) in the 10th round.[7] Mayweather's guaranteed disclosed paycheck was $100 million and McGregor's guaranteed disclosed paycheck was $30 million.[8][9] However, the purse for the two fighters was expected to be substantially higher for each, with Mayweather reportedly earning $280 million from the fight and McGregor earning $130 million.[10][11][12]
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- ^ "Circus begins: Here's how Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather kicked off 'Money Fight' tour". MMA Junkie. USA Today. July 11, 2017. Archived from the original on September 24, 2021. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ^ Jay, Phil (January 31, 2017). "Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor – The Money Fight". World Boxing News. Archived from the original on September 24, 2021. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ^ "'The Biggest Fight In Combat Sports History' Might Not Even Sell Out". Balls.ie. August 25, 2017. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ Tristen Critchfield (December 14, 2017). "SHOWTIME: MAYWEATHER VS. MCGREGOR DID 4.3 MILLION PAY-PER-VIEW BUYS IN NORTH AMERICA". Sherdog. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather Beats Conor McGregor by 10th-Round TKO in Megafight". bleacherreport.com. August 27, 2017. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
- ^ Tom Lutz; Bryan Armen Graham (August 26, 2017). "Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor: boxer beats UFC star in superfight – as it happened". Guardian. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
- ^ "Mayweather beats McGregor: as it happened". BBC Sport. August 26, 2017. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
- ^ "You'll never guess how much money Floyd Mayweather made in his fight against Conor McGregor". AOL. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ Woollard, Rob (August 27, 2017). "Fifty and out as Mayweather stops brave McGregor". Yahoo! Sports. Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ "What is the Mayweather vs McGregor prize money and how much did Floyd Mayweather Jnr. take home?". The Daily Telegraph. August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.