UFC News: Floyd Mayweather Fires Back After Conor McGregor Denies Training Invitation

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather reignited the bad blood they have with each other.

Just over a year from their lucrative boxing match that saw both fighters earn nine figures following Mayweather's TKO win, the now-retired boxer extended an invitation to McGregor to train at his boxing club ahead of the latter's UFC 229 lightweight title fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov in October.

"Leading up to the fight when McGregor gets to Las Vegas, I know the UFC got a training facility, but we’d like for him to workout at the Mayweather Boxing Club," Mayweather recently told TMZ, as he would also go on to praise the Irishman. "Conor, he’s not going to back down and he’s not a scared fighter at all. So win, lose or draw, Conor’s going to come to fight."

McGregor on the other hand, was not enthralled by the invitation. He responded on Twitter on Tuesday night, using the "F--k the Mayweathers" line he so commonly used in the buildup to their boxing fight, before stating there was "no peace" between them. He did, however, show respect to Floyd Sr. and Jeff Mayweather.

While Mayweather tried to bury the hatchet, the 29-year-old's response forced him to respond in the best way possible.

Many had praised McGregor for his showing in the Mayweather fight. He had dominated the early rounds, albeit without really hurting Mayweather, before gassing out, allowing "Money" to take over and ultimately come away with the win in the 10th round.

McGregor believed he was dominantly winning before claiming Mayweather changed his strategy during the fight which he was not prepared for, but the latter always maintained after the win that it was his strategy to let his opponent use all their energy up and then get the finish.

Calling the win the "easiest nine figures" he ever made will no doubt sting McGregor, but for now, the Irishman's focus will solely be on his fight with Nurmagomedov.

What is being billed as the biggest fight in UFC history, McGregor will challenge Nurmagomedov for the lightweight title he never lost at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 6, as the latter makes his return to the octagon for the first time in under two years. Tickets for the event notably sold out in just three minutes, already becoming the second largest gate in UFC history in the process.

Reflecting on the one-year anniversary of his fight with Mayweather, McGregor wrote on social media that while he adhered to a lot of rules to make a lot of money, he was no longer doing that as he posted a picture of him training with a sparring partner.

The former two-weight champion also began his famed mental warfare against Nurmagomedov, recently attacking the latter's father and his friend.

The duo's rivalry goes all the way back to UFC 205 in 2016 when McGregor jumped over Nurmagomedov to get a shot at Eddie Alvarez's lightweight title.

They both had a confrontation in the buildup to that event but things escalated further a couple of days before UFC 223 in April this year when McGregor threw a dolly at a bus carrying Nurmagomedov.