Conor McGregor V Floyd Mayweather Super-Fight: 5 Positives & 5 Negatives

Negatives

5. We May Never See Either Man Fight Again

Floyd Mayweather is almost certainly never fighting again after this. While boxing retirements are as trustworthy as political promises, Mayweather has no motivation to come back after this, barring personal financial catastrophe. At 40 years old with his promotional activities going pretty well at the moment, he should be just fine.

Conor McGregor is more of an unknown in this sense. Dana White did say immediately after the announcement of this fight that Conor has told him that he wants to fight again before the end of 2017. One of Conor's most admirable qualities is his desire to be the best fighter he can be, and as a true obsessive martial artist, he might be too obsessed with the fight game to walk away before he turns 30.

The problem comes when you consider UFC's financial capabilities, and you wonder if that may demotivate McGregor enough to just call it a career without ever returning to the octagon.

McGregor's base pay for the Diaz rematch was $3,000,000. Throw in pay-per-view points and all the rest and he'll have done much better than that. But how many times would he need to fight to match what he'll make in one night this coming August? It may take an extremely busy 2018 to even get close.

For what it's worth, Forbes put his estimated earnings for 2016 between $25,000,000 and $40,000,000. One thing is for sure. McGregor isn't fighting in UFC again unless the base line is a lot higher than $3,000,000.