MayMac World Tour: Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor quotes from the fourth and final press conference in London

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Tue August 22, 2017 · 7y ago

Key quotes from round four of the Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor press conference tour in London, as the hype ahead of their August 26 showdown continued ...

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Unbeaten boxing champion Mayweather and UFC superstar McGregor gave us more verbal sparring at London's Wembley Arena on Friday night.

Here's what both fighters had to say ...

Mayweather vs McGregor: London Recap

Floyd Mayweather

"When we are going back and forth, when McGregor gets up there and speaks, I sit back and let him speak his piece, say what he has to say. I just sit quiet.

"When it is my turn to go up, I get to speaking, he gets to interrupting me, so it is obvious I am getting under his skin.

"I never needed Conor McGregor when I made $800million. But he is a great dance partner and I do need him for August 26.

"I am happy to be back in the UK. It has been a great tour, I take my hat off to my team. We have done a great job building this event.

"This is big for both MMA and the boxing world. This is huge. Every MMA guy is trying to fight a boxer. A fight like this can only happen once in a lifetime. This is a very, very big event.

"It took more than just myself to make this fight happen, but to make a fight of this magnitude happen I had to be involved.

"McGregor is very unorthodox and has youth on his side. He's a warrior and will fight until the end. He has got the same."I don't know if he'll quit. I won't quit. My thing is kill or be killed.

"He can fight and he's tough, but he's also an entertainer. I like the fact he's confident and we need more guys like him."

Conor McGregor

"The tour became a verbal battle that people were scoring and I didn't anticipate it being so back and forth. If we are going to score it then f*** it, let's do that - I smoked him on all four rounds.

"LA was a 10-9, my suit went viral, Toronto was a wipeout 10-7 because he was dropped twice. I won New York and then here I smoked him again. For a 40-year-old man he has his childish ways and that's amusing. This is a ruthless business and I am ruthless.

"I think it (the accusation that McGregor is a racist) is ridiculous. I don't understand it. I know who I am as a person and I think that most realistic people will look at me and know who I am.

"You can be fooled by him if you want to be fooled by him. You know the man's character and his history. He's trying to sway people in his favour and it's a cheap move.

"I was trying to address something in my own little way but whatever, if he feels it's disrespectful then he's an idiot and f*** him as well. It's a dirty play."