Dana White has made a counteroffer to Floyd Mayweather’s offer of $15 million to Conor McGregor. On FS1’s “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, he offered to pay the fighters $25 million each and a split of the PPV revenue.
During his ESPN “car wash” earlier this week, Mayweather stated he’s interested in McGregor but as the “A” side would want $100 million plus his PPV cut. He would grant McGregor $15 million.
White chimed in today with his offer.
Of course, but its far less than Mayweather had been suggesting. Thus, TMZ caught up with Floyd who gave his response.
Payout Perspective:
Let’s be honest, this fight will not happen if the UFC wants to co-promote. Mayweather garnered a 60-40 split in his Fight of the Century with Manny Pacquiao. He’ll be sure to want a 70-30 split against an unproven commodity. Sure, the UFC PPVs and attendance/gate are good for McGregor, but Mayweather knows his worth and there’s no reason for him to fight unless he gets what he wants.
Of course he does, he’d be terrified of the potential rules. This guy doesn’t know how to fight.
McGregor is certainly not an unproven commodity. Mayweather would be in a mixed rules fight, which is what White offered.
As White pointed out, why is Mayweather worth 60-40? He isn’t the bigger draw, McGregor is. Mayweather only did 375k buys in his last fight and 4 out of his last 6 have not eclipsed 900k, McGregor has gone way over 1m in each of his last 3.
Hahahahahaha CHEAP offer!!!! Pathetic….they cant afford to spend anymore….4 billion down hahahahaha
Even in mma websites…comments from mma fans are its a low low offer….hahahaha
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2017/01/13/floyd-mayweather-dana-white-conor-mcgregor/
D 4.4 million buys lol, McTapout is a bum who loses fights lol
Mayweather’s last ppv…..375k buys.
McGregor’s last ppv…..easily over 1m buys.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs dana whites offer and the worlds reaction to it on the first scene hahahaha
I’m really curious as to how much money Showtime lost on Floyd’s last fight. It must have been over 10m. Horrendous.
That because Dana is smart and doesn’t over spend on events. No Al Haymon over here hahaha
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IbZbzTTZXOI……dana white = wack 100.hahahaha…..mcgregor and mayweather hyped the whole thing and dw wants to be in control of both….same as mayweather and 50 cent c.b and s.b hyped it and wack 100 wants to control…huh? Hahahahaha….its a west cost/ufc thing hahaha…..ufc is not used to pay big money to fighters its alien to them
Huh?
Mayweather is the most popular MMA fighter lol. McTapout begging for that payday.
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Mayweather…begging for relevance again.
Hahahahaha did dw price himself out,or in this case low…..i mean giving a number that is sooooo low it is 100% to be rejected ….oh he is very defensive on Mayweather claiming connor has a boss…hahaha..mayweather should target that angle….
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfAN1n-wit8 hahahaha..
Floyd barely broke 300K in his last PPV.
Mayweather-Berto did 500k ppvs.
Assuming you guys are making numbers up again to make it seem lower.
It is hilarious to see people try to claim that Conor is the A side when you are talking about a guy (Floyd) who sold 5M PPVs in one outing.
Floyd-Canelo II would do over 2.5M ppvs. So would Floyd-Manny II.
Conor will never do 2M in the UFC. There is no opponent to make it interesting.
Mayweather-Berto did 375k ppv buys. Those are the actual figures that were reported by independent sources.
Connor is the A side of this fictitious fight. His last 4 ppvs did over 1m buys. You have to go back to 2011 for the last 4 Mayweather ppvs that went over 1m buys. It isn’t even close nowadays.
I love it how that Pacquaio ppv number keeps evolving. Next year it will hit 6m, right?
Floyd-Canelo II would not hit 2.5m buys and it would involve two stars. McGregor-GSP would certainly go over 2m buys though. You also just acknowledged that Mayweather’s opponents made the difference in him bringing in those number of buys.