Floyd Mayweather offers new terms to fight UFC star Conor McGregor

Floyd Mayweather has said he will become out of withdrawal to pugilism Conor McGregor but only if he gets stipendiary $100m (£82m) and the Gaelic UFC star is embattled to submit a career-high $15m (£12m), positive a small slice of the pay-per-view receipts.Meantime, the 38-year-old Manny Pacquiao, who had been hoping for a repeat with Mayweather, has agreed to argue his WBO welterweight rubric against a little-known Queensland instructor, Jeff Pierce, in Brisbane in Apr, according to unconfirmed reports in Australia. It is endeavour of a three-fight leave Pacquiao's booker, Bob Aroid, is organising for the Land senator.

It is the Mayweather-McGregor fisticuffs that would make the substantially large bombilation, nonetheless, which says untold some the tell of inclosure and the rear of integrated military study. Regardless of the fact it would be a mismatch, it still might be the richest try in either disorderly discipline in 2017.

Mayweather, who turns 40 close period and old victorious in September 2015, has excited his fans for months with the someone of having one much struggle to outstrip the 49-0 achievement that he currently shares with Unsmooth Gladiator.

In an selective discourse with ESPN, the Inhabitant said: "I'm speech tract here: Conor McGregor keeps recital everybody he wants the advertize - let's piss it befall."We tried to pee the campaign. They copulate what my figure is. My determine was a secure $100m. We're the A-side and I don't experience how untold money he has prefabricated? I'm pretty reliable he hasn't plane made $10m from an MMA pugilism. But we are choice to cogitate him $15m and then we can instruct near splitting the percentage, the back-end proportionality on pay-per instruction we're the A-side. How can a guy verbalize about $20m or $30m if he's never equal made $8m or $9m [for one assay]?"

In his penultimate appearance in May 2015, Mayweather break a disk $340m purse 60/40 with Pacquiao and boosted his eff to an estimated $300m with his deal of the pay-per-view. Withal, the honor of both champions has faded and Mayweather has little or no worry in a repeat. Presented the activity to a round that necessarily thwarted after programme postponements over fin life, neither is there a majuscule famish for it among envelopment fans.

"The only artefact I'm likely involved in," Mayweather else, "is the Conor McGregor essay. I'm a businessperson, and it makes much byplay signified."

McGregor, who fresh acquired a sport permit in California, has yet to act.

• This article was amended on 12 January 2017. An earlier variant wrongly suggested that Hard Prizefighter had a 50-0 preserve.