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

3. It Will Hurt The Build To Everything Around It

Not that this is anything that McGregor or Mayweather will worry or care about, but this announcement has made everything around it feel much smaller in comparison. UFC have three pay-per-views scheduled between now and the fight, and all will be somewhat enveloped by the build to August.

UFC 213 sees the rematch between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko for the bantamweight title, and a co-main pitting Robert Whittaker against Yoel Romero for an interim middleweight championship. UFC 214 is the home of the Daniel Cormier vs. Jon Jones rematch. While that has been building for almost three years, it is very possible that the potential buy rate will take a hit.

UFC 215 is scheduled for the weekend before Mayweather-McGregor, and with no big fights booked yet, UFC would be smart to postpone it until September. Especially considering they're eyeing the Demetrious Johnson vs. TJ Dillashaw fight for that card which is not only proving troublesome, but needs all the promotional help it can get.

Boxing has a reasonably relaxed summer ahead after a hot start to 2017. This weekend it's Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II, which will obviously be overshadowed in the immediate aftermath of the announcement. Manny Pacquiao fights Jeff Horn at the start of July, but his star has fallen somewhat. After that though, it's not until Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez in September that there's a fight that could do very big business.

Some fights will be a little overwhelmed by this hype train, but it's a necessary evil of putting together true super-fights.