Why critics are calling Floyd Mayweather’s Las Vegas bout ‘a farce’
London — The bout between US boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and Irish Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) star Conor McGregor is not so much a superfight as a farce, says Britain’s former undisputed heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis. Mayweather and McGregor go toe to toe at the weekend in Las Vegas — the clash brought the undefeated former welterweight king out of retirement — but Lewis told the British Broadcasting Corporation he would not label it as a "serious fight". Lewis reasoned that as Mayweather’s previous 49 opponents had failed to find a chink in his armour, there was little reason to believe the MMA fighter would find him out. "There is tremendous build-up and hype, but I don’t really take it as a serious fight," he said. Lewis, who won Olympic super-heavyweight gold for Canada in 1988, but returned to the country of his birth, England, when he turned professional, cast doubt on whether Mayweather should be accorded the record for fights without defeat if he defeats McGregor....
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