Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor press conference, watch live: New York City hosts third face off of the week
Mayweather and McGregor faced off at the Barclays Center in New York, in a bad-tempered press conference which almost came to blows when the two entourages squared off
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Your support makes all the difference.Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will go face to face for the third time this week on Thursday night, as their whistle-stop media tour arrives in New York City.
The NYC presser will be held at the Barclays Centre and is due to get underway at 11.30pm BST. We’ll be bringing you live coverage of the event from around 10pm.
Unsurprisingly, the press tour has been thrilling, controversial and surreal in equal measure.
Mayweather was widely judged to have got the better of McGregor at the first press conference in LA, but the Irishman more than got his own back in Toronto a night later, when he ridiculed the size of his adversary’s head and the fact he cannot read, before turning his fire on Showtime.
You can read the full transcript from the first press conference in Los Angeles HERE, and you can read the second transcript from Toronto HERE.
This is the penultimate event of the four-date press tour, with the final news conference due to be staged in London on Friday night.
Follow live updates from the NYC press conference below…
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Wow.
Showtime have officially confirmed the PPV price for those watching in the States.
Will the cost of watching in the UK stay at the £30 mark? I'm really beginning to doubt it, unfortunately...
Showtime chief exec Stephen Espinoza (the man McGregor last night dubbed a "weasel" and a "b****") has also just confirmed that McGregor will suffer a "significant financial penalty" for attempting a non-boxing move in the ring.
To even consider that McGregor may attempt such a thing is incredibly disrespectful to the man, IMHO. He's the finest mixed martial artist of his generation - he's not a headcase.
(Okay, so he's also a little bit of a headcase.)
We're now running more than 30 minutes behind schedule.
It's fine. I didn't want to go to bed tonight anyway.
More info on the potential undercard.
Those three other fights could well comprise of Gervonta Davis defending his IBF super-featherweight title (as expected), Badou Jack fighting WBA light-heavyweight world champion Nathan Cleverly, and County Durham girl Savannah Marshall making her pro debut.
That's really not a lot of bang for your £7,800, is it?
Rich Baker messages to say...
I'm not sure it was a case of Mayweather winning outright, more a case of McGregor not winning. The UFC star is obviously renowned for his trash talking and was expected to wipe the floor with Mayweather (as he did last night in Toronto), but McGregor was clearly thrown by the unusual set up on that first night and was unable to really take his opponent to task.
Mayweather didn't manage to land too many verbal blows either, but he definitely emerged as the more professional of the two men, and certainly seemed more at ease in that particular environment (he has Showtime to thank for that).
But of course, his success didn't last long, and it will be interesting to see how he responds to last night's drubbing in New York. IF IT EVER STARTS.
There's a good chance the long wait for this press conference to begin is making you want to wash your hands of this fight.
But wait! It should be starting very, very soon. In the meantime, why not watch the official fight trailer again, to remind yourself why everybody is so excited for this absolutely ridiculous mash-up.
So, who are we all going to blame for the hold-up?
Ellerbe looking like a strong early contender...
Brendan Schaub, who has been working as a pundit for Showtime throughout the media tour, has said that the press conference is now likely to begin at 8pm EST.
Which is 1am GMT.
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