โI gave Canelo my date the other day,โ Floyd Mayweather said knowingly after Gervonta Davisโ successful super-featherweight title defence on Saturday (May 20).
Mayweather for years has fought regularly in May and September. As speculation mounts that he will fight UFC star Conor McGregor, speculation which Mayweather increasingly welcomes, as soon as this year, consideration naturally turns to when it might take place. The not inconsiderable matter of Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin on September 16.
โSeptember and May, because Iโm Mayweather. Those are my months. May has to be my month because Iโm Mayweather. May and September were always my months,โ Mayweather mused. He could fight McGregor โmaybe even this year. I donโt know yet, Iโll have to talk to my teamโ.
But he wonโt let Golovkin-Canelo affect any of his plans. His representative Leonard Ellerbe said, โNo not at all. Those guys, whatever theyโre doing, we wish them the best of luck. Theyโre all great fighters. Floyd Mayweather is on another planetโฆ If he does anything, itโs going to be one thing and thatโs that.โ
Mayweather feels perfectly assured in what he has already accomplished, โfor generating billions in the sport of boxing, for having a sell out crowdโ. Though Mayweather even brought up the question of how his drawing power compares to a certain Anthony Joshuaโs. โI was watching the fight with Klitschko and Joshua,โ he said. โWe didnโt have to have all those hundreds of thousands [in the stadium] to do a 70 million dollar gate. Like I said before, those guys put on a hell of a show. Iโm just on another planet.โ
He continued, โI did it all. Thereโs nothing really else I can do in the sport of boxing. Once you get so much money, thereโs nothing else you can buy. You buy one jet, you buy another jet, thereโs nothing else you can do, youโve got mansions here, youโve got mansions there. You canโt live in all those houses, thereโs a limit.โ