Conor McGregor was far from impressed with Floyd Mayweather’s performance against John Gotti III.
On Sunday, Mayweather returned to the ring to continue his exhibition tour, this time taking on Gotti III, the grandson of notorious New York mob boss John Gotti. Typically competing in mixed martial arts, Gotti III used his name to secure a fight with Mayweather inside the squared circle. What occurred was nothing short of a circus that ultimately led to a disqualification and a brawl with dozens of men flooding the ring.
Complete chaos after the Floyd Mayweather-John Gotti III fight was stopped 😳
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Following the incident, Mayweather’s former foe, Conor McGregor, took to Twitter and sided with the Gotti family before quickly deleting his comment. ‘The Notorious’ echoed those same sentiments during his brief interaction with TMZ Sports, while also taking a dig at Mayweather’s run of exhibition bouts that, in the end, don’t mean much of anything.
“I wasn’t that impressed, to be honest with you,” McGregor replied when asked about Mayweather’s performance against Gotti III.
“I don’t know what he’s on,” he continued. “There’s no meaning behind it. He’s just here and there. There’s no meaning behind the bouts. There’s nothing to it. I enjoyed the brawl afterward more than I did the actual bout.”
McGregor and Mayweather met inside the boxing ring in August 2017 at the peak of the Irishman’s popularity in MMA. McGregor suffered a 10th-round TKO against ‘Money’ before returning to the Octagon.
Joe Rogan Details What Led to the Brawl Between Floyd Mayweather and John Gotti III
Long-time UFC commentator Joe Rogan discussed the incident during the Monday edition of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast, summing up what led to the massive brawl inside the ring, and eventually outside of it.
“[Gotti] was holding. Floyd was boxing him up. So Floyd is just piecing him up. Even at 46, he’s the greatest of all time and [Gotti] is really an MMA fighter. He’s a tough guy. He caught Floyd a couple times with some little shots, but mostly he’s getting boxed up. Boxed up by literally the greatest boxer of all time, but [Gotti] was holding on quite a bit and wouldn’t let go and was trying to hold and clinch and hit, which is something you can do in MMA.
“So he’s protecting himself from Floyd, but he’s not letting go and so [referee] Kenny Bayless gets tired of him not listening and not letting go and he pushes him off and says ‘That’s it. I’m stopping this fight. That’s it. You won’t listen to me, I am calling this fight.’ So [Gotti] goes crazy and gets away from Kenny Bayless and starts wailing punches at Floyd.”
Rogan’s guest on the episode, Ali Siddiq, summed up Gotti’s actions with a simple metaphor.
“You came into his sport, got into his arena. You crawled into the snake hole and then got mad the snake will bite you,” Siddiq added.
