Fox Sports’ Shannon Sharpe Blames Trump For Mayweather-McGregor ‘Trash Talk’
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC champion Conor McGregor recently wrapped up a world tour to promote their much-anticipated bout dubbed “The Money Fight” which will take place in Las Vegas on August 26.
As things often go in the world of professional boxing, the rhetoric got a little heated with some believing it may have even crossed the line at times.
“Dance for me boy,” McGregor told Mayweather, which seemed to offend others more than the boxing legend.
Mayweather returned the favor, calling McGregor a “faggot” during another promotion event.
Some believe the trash talk is par for the course. Others believe they went too far. And others apparently believe that if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election, the two fighters would be having tea and complimenting each other’s right hooks.
On Monday’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed on FS1, NFL great Shannon Sharpe blamed the often vulgar language expressed during the promotional events on who else but Donald Trump. Yes, Shannon Sharpe actually blamed President Trump for the Mayweather-McGregor trash talking. And no member of the four-person panel openly laughed in his face.
According to Sharpe, Trump is “allowed to say certain things with no ramifications,” so why not McGregor and Mayweather? And, apparently, some of it was even “sexist”, according to Sharpe.
“I don’t have a problem with trash talking,” Sharpe said. “I don’t have a problem with you trying to sell me something, but doesn’t need to be sexist, it doesn’t need to be racist, it doesn’t need to be derogatory. And that’s what we saw. I’m disappointed as a society because we’ve come to accept this. I hate to say this, guys, but this is the President Trump effect because he has been allowed to say certain things with no ramifications.”
As the voice of reason to some extent, co-host Skip Bayless replied, “I hear what you’re saying and in spirit, I agree with what you’re saying.”
“But this is not the Donald Trump effect, this is the Conor McGregor effect,” Bayless concluded.
[watch above via FS1, comments begin at 23:00 mark]
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