By Carlos Boogs
Trainer and former fighter Jeff Mayweather has fired back at UFC President Dana White, this past Saturday night erupted at the post fight press conference to UFC 210 in Buffalo, New York - after being pressed on the recent claims that he's demanding a huge bulk of money from UFC superstar Conor McGregor to go forward with a possible boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
McGregor is pushing hard to fight Mayweather in a boxing match - but in order to do so, the outspoken Irish fighter must receive approval from the UFC, who have McGregor under an exclusive binding contract.
Mayweather, who retired in September 2015, announced last month that he was officially coming back to the ring - but only for the sole purpose of facing McGregor.
Jeff Mayweather - who is Floyd's uncle - made a big claim that the UFC was trying to take 80% of McGregor's money to move forward with a Floyd Mayweather fight.
“80-20 percent,” Jeff Mayweather told Eyes on the Game’s Helen Yee. “(Conor) would have to take 20 percent, if he’s allowed to fight. And the one thing is that Dana’s his boss. He’ll still make more money than he ever did (with that 20 percent), but at the same time, that’s very tough pill to swallow.
“If somebody tells you ‘I’m gonna take 80 percent of your money, and you’re the one that’s fighting for it, that’s still a tough pill to swallow. Even if you made more money than you ever did. But, it is what it is.”
When White was questioned about those statements, he lashed out at Jeff Mayweather, and especially in the direction of his long-time nemesis Bob Arum, who claims White is trying to get 50% of McGregor's money.
"What I would like to clarify is all the bullsh*t about the 80 f***ing 20 split,” White said at the UFC 210 post-fight press conference. “Jeff Mayweather? Come on, Jeff. Me and Jeff go way back. Jeff, are you the spokesman now for f***ing Team Mayweather? And Bob Arum? You piece of sh*t. F*** you, too."
"What do they know about this fight? You want to know what they know about this fight? Nothing. Believe me, we’ve had preliminary talks with Conor and I’m in a good place with Conor and we’re going to meet in New York when he has his baby."
Jeff Mayweather believes he struck a big nerve - because "the truth" was being spoken. He feels White and the UFC are abusing McGregor by demanding a split of 80-20.
"The only reason he even saying anything about me is because of the fact that I'm telling the truth and the truth hurts. When you put it out there and you have all of these people with all of these expectations of you and then now, everybody realizing that you ripping these fighters off, and that's basically what it amounts to. You have a guy [Conor McGregor], true enough he's going to make more money than he's ever made in his life, but at the same time, 80/20, that's a horrible split in any sense of the word; I don't care because at the end of the day, Conor's still gotta go in the ring," Jeff told Fighthype.com.
"I'm talking about the UFC with Conor McGregor [80/20 split] because Floyd's money is guaranteed. Whatever Floyd gets, Floyd's gonna get. Whatever he asks for, that's what they gotta give him for that fight to even happen. Like I said, I just pulled the wool off of him, that's all. A lot of people thought already that anyway, but it came from a different source, so maybe people looking at him in a different way now. I'm looking at all the comments on...most people are saying, yeah, they know that he's a thief."
