Conor McGregor: Floyd Mayweather's strip club 'like a crack den' (no offense to workers)

LAS VEGAS – There’s no angle Conor McGregor won’t attack against Floyd Mayweather.

Today, McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) found a new twist on an old jab at Mayweather’s (49-0 boxing) financial literacy, mocking the boxing champ’s investment in a strip club.

“That strip club is bleeding money from him, and he knows it, and he’s talking about franchising it,” McGregor said backstage after the final press conference for “The Money Fight,” which takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “The thing looks like a crack den, and that’s no disrespect to the people that are in there. It’s a horrendous decision.”

While promoting “The Money Fight,” Mayweather has made sure to plug his newest business venture, Girl Collection, a 6,000 square-foot topless club in Las Vegas that he opened in May. Tickets to his “victory party” after the fight start at $300 and top out at $3,000.

Mayweather told Jimmy Kimmel he got into the adult entertainment business because “breasts, vaginas, music and alcohol will never go out of style.” He brought cameras from Showtime’s “All Access” to the club. He recently said he would spend every night of fight week under its red lights.

McGregor isn’t impressed. He shrugged when asked the inevitable question about whether Mayweather’s extracurricular trips indicated overconfidence in a win.

“I don’t care about that,” the UFC lightweight champ said. “Whatever. He’s so cool, isn’t he? At the strip club a couple days before the fight. Like, who gives a bollocks, mate. I’d say the place stinks. That’s being straight. Looking at it on ‘All Access,’ I’d say the place stinks.”

Even before “The Money Fight” was signed, UFC President Dana White speculated Mayweather would take a fight with McGregor because of a ravenous spending appetite. When the fight was booked, McGregor looked on with glee as fans taunted Mayweather over a highly publicized bill with the IRS. Today, he said the undefeated boxer’s gambling habits and bad decisions had ultimately brought them together.

“He needs to let that gambling go,” McGregor said. “He’s always talking about doing it, and then not doing it. I don’t really care. You don’t see many winners in those places.”

The winners, McGregor boasted, invest in businesses that earn a sound profit, like his own deal with luxury clothing maker David August. The two paired for his UFC fight with Dustin Poirier and eventually struck a business deal.

McGregor said a full line of branded apparel will be released soon and will reinvent the apparel industry. A suit covered head to toe in an expletive, debuted for the Los Angeles stop of the May-Mac world tour, certainly made an impression, if nothing else.

“This is a move to make,” McGregor said. “So I’m very proud of myself for the moves I’m making.”

Of course, the best way to determine who made the smartest move is to check in five years which business is still around. Fighters make all sorts of moves with their money – fewer make ones that pay off.

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