Mayweather-McGregor winner will get a gaudy 'Money Belt' with over 3000 diamonds and made out of alligator skin
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Loading...LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor aren't just fighting for money in the boxing spectacle of the summer.
The winner also gets The Money Belt.The World Boxing Council has created a special prize for this weekend's 154-pound showdown, which isn't actually for any real WBC championship.
Instead, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman on Wednesday revealed the gloriously blingy Money Belt , which is studded with 3,360 diamonds, 600 sapphires, 300 emeralds and 1 1/2 kilograms of 24-karat gold on green Italian alligator leather.
Sulaiman grinningly showed off the Money Belt and Mayweather posed for photos with it after a news conference for Saturday's show.The WBC also created a similarly shiny monstrosity for Mayweather's 2015 bout with Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather was a longtime WBC champion before his retirement.
We are only days away from the much anticipated mega-fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather and people who want to bet on the favorite are getting a huge boost from everybody else.
Jay Rood, MGM Resorts' VP of Race and Sports, was a guest on ESPN's "Mike & Mike" and discussed just how lopsided the betting action has been so far.
According to Rood, approximately 95% of the bets MGM has received so far have been on McGregor.
"Currently we have nearly 6,400 tickets written to Conor McGregor and about 280 tickets written on Mayweather," Rood told ESPN.
Likewise, according to the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, 95% of the bets they have received have also been on McGregor.
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