Floyd Mayweather Jr. has a grievance, and it isn’t about a belt. He says Conor McGregor walked off with his swag, and he wants to run it back in a boxing ring to settle the account.
Speaking on the PBD Podcast, Mayweather floated a rematch nine years after their crossover mega-fight. “Actually, I think me and Conor McGregor may lock up again,” he said. “Yeah, absolutely. He didn’t break his hand, he broke his foot, right? Okay, well, we going from the shoulders. We going from the shoulders.” Fighters Only posted the clip to X on October 21, 2026.
Then came the swag theft allegation, delivered with the confidence of a man filing a police report. “The guy that took my whole swag and took it over there to the UFC,” Mayweather said. “As soon as Conor McGregor faced Floyd Mayweather, I mean, he was big as life.”
He kept going, arguing that McGregor’s career hit another level only after their fight. “His career wasn’t like that before. What was his biggest payday? What was his biggest fight?” Mayweather said, before adding, “I think I made about $300 [million]. I don’t like to count another man’s pocket, but he ate good.”
How we got here
The two met in a super welterweight boxing match at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on August 26, 2017, with McGregor holding the UFC lightweight title at the time. Mayweather won by TKO in Round 10, and he has said more than once since that he carried McGregor through the early rounds. The event pulled in more than half a billion dollars, according to MMA Mania, with a huge share landing in Mayweather’s account.
McGregor ate fine too. Reports put his take north of $100 million, though those same reports had the UFC pulling roughly $50 million off the top of his purse. Mayweather has a point, then. McGregor left that night a bigger star than he walked in, even with the loss.
McGregor has shown interest in a second fight. Dana White hasn’t, even though the UFC would presumably get its cut again. The UFC CEO said there was nothing about the first fight that makes him think “if we did that again, there might be a different outcome.”
There’s also the small matter of McGregor’s health and paperwork. He is currently sidelined with a knee injury and has one fight remaining on his UFC deal. Once that bout is done, he’s a free agent, and a Mayweather sequel would surely make his shortlist, assuming Mayweather can land a big fight again at all.
Here’s my take. I love a villain who calls his shot, and “we going from the shoulders” is an all-time pitch line, right up there with a guy promising to use his hands in a fight that only allows hands. But White is right about the sport and wrong about the business. Nobody bought the first one expecting McGregor to win a boxing match, and nobody would buy the second one for that either. They’d buy it for the press tour, and those two could fill a stadium with trash talk alone. The trouble is the order of operations: McGregor has to get his knee right and finish that last UFC fight before anyone signs anything, so for now this is two very rich men arguing on podcasts about who owns a vibe.
