A potential super fight between Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and UFC superstar Conor McGregor, which now seems very much inevitable due to the reports that truckloads of money would be placed in order to make the fight happen.

According to USA Today, if the fight would push through, it would most likely be a boxing match. It would qualify for that description despite the fact that one of the combatants, UFC's golden boy Conor McGregor, has never boxed competitively either as an amateur or professional.

Many sports analysts believe that the fight would definitely be a circus-style wave of publicity, involving a lot of trash talking in an attempt to build some hype and, therefore, profitability, which is a process that many would argue has already started, with Mayweather and McGregor regularly involving themselves in social media verbal sparring sessions.

Though it wouldn't be the very first time a fighter from one combat discipline has ventured into another, it would most definitely be the first instance of someone personally starting that journey by taking on one of the best fighters in the history of boxing. This would also tell fans all they need to know about how slim the likelihood is of the projected contest actually being a competitive one.

But more than anything else, the event would also be a referendum to the public, specifically its ability to forgive and forget. According to Sportazine, this fight will be, once a few remaining hurdles are overcome, a match-up created solely for fiscal purposes and bragging rights for both players, so it is okay for fans to view its potential success through that lens as well.

But in order To make the kind of extraordinary sums that is desired by Mayweather, the longtime pound-for-pound boxing champ, and McGregor, the widely popular Irish MMA fighter, they will need to convince the masses of people that this super fight is something worth paying for.

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