Update: After a trainwreck in Brooklyn, the MayMac world tour attempts to pick up the pieces Friday in London, its fourth and final stop. You can watch the press conference here at 2 p.m. ET.
Watch Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor’s Brooklyn press conference
Conor McGregor is on a mission to get in the head of Floyd Mayweather, so expect to see him try to ramp things up even more in Brooklyn.
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The four-day world tour to promote the Aug. 26 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor promised to be entertaining but has exceeded those expectations so far.
Gigantic and raucous crowds in Los Angeles and Toronto cranked up the intensity and trash talk between the two fighters, and Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y. is likely to be no different.
Like the first two days of the tour, the press conference at Barclays Center will be broadcast on Fox Sports 2, beginning at 7 p.m. ET. It will also be streamed live on Fox Sports GO and on Youtube via Showtime and the UFC.
It’s the second-to-last stop before McGregor and Mayweather wrap up the press tour in London on Friday. And while it’s the final stop in the United States — the home country of Mayweather — it’s unlikely that he’ll have the crowd on his side Thursday.
In both L.A. and Toronto, the crowds were predominantly in McGregor’s favor, even taunting Mayweather with a “Pay your taxes!” chant Wednesday. While Tuesday didn’t have a clear winner in the banter between the two fighters, McGregor stole the show in Toronto — although, Mayweather insists he was the winner of the first two days of the tour.
After learning the format that caught McGregor off guard Tuesday, he came prepared Wednesday with a heated diatribe aimed at Mayweather. He even steamrolled Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza, calling him a weasel and accusing the network of cutting his microphone on the first day of the tour.
Among the many insults hurled at Mayweather, McGregor accused the boxer of being unable to pay his taxes, unable to read, and said he dresses like a 12-year-old breakdancer.
Mayweather appeared to get under the Irish MMA star’s skin, though, by borrowing an Ireland flag from the crowd and draping it over his shoulders.
A seasoned boxer with a 49-0 record, Mayweather’s goal during the tour is just to promote the fight and get fans excited about the August matchup. For McGregor, the aim is to frustrate and get into the head of Mayweather.
That means he’s unlikely to let off the gas pedal in the final two days of the tour and Brooklyn will likely be as exciting, if not more so, than the days prior.
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