It’s official. Yahoo Sports has confirmed that Floyd Mayweather will take on current UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor on August 26 in Las Vegas. There are no details out on the terms of the deal but it looks like the fight will take place at the at the MGM Grand or the T-Mobile Arena.

This fight was in the works for well over a year and at various times it looked like egos and money terms were a sticking point but both sides were finally able to work something out.

It will be interesting to see how this affects WWE’s business considering that SummerSlam takes place on 8/20 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Arena. In the past, WWE would try to steer clear of major pay-per-view events but things are different now with the WWE Network. This might affect their subscriber numbers for the month but I doubt they will see a ton of people unsubscribing to free up cash for Mayweather/McGregor.

There’s no word on what the price point will be for that mega-fight but my guess is that it will be somewhere around $100 and front row ticket prices will not be any less than $10,000. McGregor had previously been in talks to work with WWE for a possible angle at a WrestleMania but the money that WWE would offer would probably not come close to whatever he is going to get paid for this fight with Mayweather.

UPDATE: Mayweather confirmed the news on Instagram:

McGregor also confirmed the news while mocking Floyd by purposely confusing him for his dad. McGregor has been mocking Floyd’s age in recent days.

THE FIGHT IS ON. A post shared by Conor McGregor Official (@thenotoriousmma) on Jun 14, 2017 at 2:21pm PDT











