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Published 16:46 22 May 2016 BST
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"I hear the boy talking. It was him (Mayweather) that leaked the rumour. (It said) he gets $100m, I get $7m - that's a pay-cut to me. I don't take pay-cuts. I thought boxing was where the money was at."However, although he knew it was only a rumour, McGregor still took his completely fictional reported purse for the fight as a personal insult against him. In his eyes, he's be taking a pay-cut if he accept the fight under those terms.
"$7m is absolutely laughable. He's talking $100m, I'm talking $100m. I'm 27 years of age and I'm just about half way through a $100m contract. At 27 years of age Floyd Mayweather was on Oscar De La Hoya's undercard. So, compare that."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/732998981744242689 McGregor certainly hasn't changed his mind about how he feels a possible fight against Mayweather would go. He claimed that he wouldn't mind slugging it out against the prized pugilist in a boxing bout and even went as far to say that he's the opponent Mayweather needs if he wishes to come out of retirement.
"He's getting old now. I have the size, I have the reach, I have the height, I have the youth." "He needs me, I don't need him. That's the truth of it. Who else can he fight? He fights someone else in the boxing round and all of a sudden the pay goes from $100m to $15m. So, he needs me."If Mayweather wants the fight to happen, McGregor has a simple message for him.
"If he wants to talk, we can talk, but it's me who's in control here."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLJhdtf7kM


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