Things have been heating up in the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight, and not in a good way. Race keeps coming up surrounding the match, not all that surprising considering the current state of the US. Some pretty borderline things were said between Mayweather and McGregor during their four date World Tour, but one major issue Mayweather has raised several times over the past weeks was the accusation that Conor called black people ‘monkeys’ in a Jimmy Kimmel Live segment.
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Now McGregor is answering back, and he claims that the ‘monkeys’ comment wasn’t referring to black people at all.
“He asked me would I beat Rocky, and I said ‘what Rocky?'” McGregor recounted in a one on one interview with MMA Fighting. “And he said Rocky 3, and I was like ‘Is Rocky 3 the one with the gym with the circus and the monkeys?’ Because he had a specialized gym built that was like a circus, a celebrity circus, there was clowns, there was all this kind of stuff. And that’s what I meant by that.
The Rocky 3 scene Conor says he was talking about when he mentioned "the celebrity gym, the dancing monkeys in the gym" #MayMac pic.twitter.com/Ku0LRF6vrr
— Ryan Harkness (@Ryan_Harkness) August 14, 2017
“And then [Mayweather] tried to twist and manipulate. But hey, all I can say, if anyone is offended, I apologize. But it was not meant in that way at all. He knows it. His people know it. It’s a weak move on his part. It’s a weasel move on his part. I can do nothing but just carry on, and that’s it.”
“Never once in my life have I labeled … I never labeled him a monkey, or any African American, or anyone a monkey. I would not disrespect any race like that. And his people know that, and you know what? He knows that too. He knows that deep down too. If I was to label him as any animal, it would be the rat. I wouldn’t even label him as the great ape. He’s a f**king rat and a weasel. Because that’s what a rat and a weasel does, tries to manupulate words and create something that’s not there.
“It’s a weak move on his part to even try and instigate something, and something so sensitive. But that’s the individual he is. He’s a man who beats his wife in front of his kid. What can I say? All I can say is I never spoke those things. That’s it.”
