UFC sensation Conor McGregor took to social media last night to respond back to Floyd Mayweather’s statement that racism exists in combat sports.
Last week, Floyd Mayweather spoke to Fight Hype, claiming racism still exists and used Conor McGregor’s success as an example. He suggested that McGregor gets positive media attention due to his skin colour.
Conor McGregor seems to not have taken this lightly, warning the former pound-for-pound king never to bring up race into his UFC success again.
McGregor wrote on his official Facebook page:
Floyd Mayweather, don’t ever bring race into my success again. I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood.
In my family’s long history of warfare there was a time where just having the name ‘McGregor’ was punishable by death.
Do not ever put me in a bracket like this again.
If you want we can organise a fight no problem.
I will give you a fair 80/20 split purse in my favour seen as your last fight bombed at every area of revenue.
At 27 years of age I now hold the key to this game.
The game answers to me now.
– Oun Abbas Hussain / @ouney86
– Managing Editor for Behind the Gloves.
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