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Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor's verbal battle is over for now and attention has turned to what is set to be the highest-earning fight of all time.
Mayweather drew a record 4.6million pay-per-view purchases for his fight with Manny Pacquiao in 2015 and his battle with McGregor will almost certainly top that.
McGregor - the biggest name in UFC - has vowed to knockout undefeated boxer Mayweather, and boldly had a giant mural depicting his triumph drawn up across his training gym wall.
Mayweather, however, says he would "run the UFC" and scoffed at McGregor's knockout claims, firing a warning about his "granite chine".
Read Standard Sport's comprehensive preview below
Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor's verbal battle is over for now and attention has turned to what is set to be the highest-earning fight of all time.
Mayweather drew a record 4.6million pay-per-view purchases for his fight with Manny Pacquiao in 2015 and his battle with McGregor will almost certainly top that.
McGregor - the biggest name in UFC - has vowed to knockout undefeated boxer Mayweather, and boldly had a giant mural depicting his triumph drawn up across his training gym wall.
Mayweather, however, says he would "run the UFC" and scoffed at McGregor's knockout claims, firing a warning about his "granite chine".
Read Standard Sport's comprehensive preview below
DATE AND START TIME
The fight is scheduled for Saturday, August 26, though it will likely begin in the UK around 4am on Sunday, August 27. The 20,000-capacity T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas will host the fight.
The fight is scheduled for Saturday, August 26, though it will likely begin in the UK around 4am on Sunday, August 27. The 20,000-capacity T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas will host the fight.
LIVE COVERAGE
Showtime are in talks with both Sky Sports and ITV over the UK broadcast rights for the fight between Mayweather and McGregor.
Showtime's HD package will cost viewers in the US $99.95.
WHAT ARE THE RULES?
The stage is set for McGregor's first professional boxing fight, with the MMA fighter set to switch the Octagon for the ring and adopt boxing rules.
Both fighters will wear boxing gloves and the use of legs, which is common in UFC, is banned.
The bout will be 12 rounds of three minutes, should it go the distance.
WHAT THEY SAID
Speaking about their recent four-leg international media tour, McGregor said: "The tour became a verbal battle that people were scoring and I didn't anticipate it being so back and forth.
"If we are going to score it then f*** it, let's do that - I smoked him on all four rounds.
"LA was a 10-9, my suit went viral, Toronto was a wipeout 10-7 because he was dropped twice.
"I won New York and then here I smoked him again. For a 40-year-old man he has his childish ways and that's amusing. This is a ruthless business and I am ruthless."
"If we are going to score it then f*** it, let's do that - I smoked him on all four rounds.
"LA was a 10-9, my suit went viral, Toronto was a wipeout 10-7 because he was dropped twice.
"I won New York and then here I smoked him again. For a 40-year-old man he has his childish ways and that's amusing. This is a ruthless business and I am ruthless."
"They call that jealousy. It comes with the territory. This is big for both MMA and the boxing world. This is huge," Mayweather said.
"Every MMA guy is trying to fight a boxer. A fight like this can only happen once in a lifetime. This is a very, very big event.
"It took more than just myself to make this fight happen, but to make a fight of this magnitude happen I had to be involved." News Source
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