Last month, I wrote a column titled: "Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor is the 2017 version of 'The Great White Hype.' In it, I compared this fight to the 1996 film in which a black heavyweight champ that had become bored with the sport he was dominating, agreed to fight a made up Irish opponent who had no business being in the ring with him. Race was at the center of the film, as the flick's promoters knew that people would flock to casinos to place bets on the fighter with the same skin color. It worked, and the champ wound up being victorious in the biggest payout of his career.