Floyd Mayweather was paid $1million to hold a press conference for his exhibition fight after he threatened not to turn up due to a clash with Gervonta Davis' event.
The boxing legend will return to the ring against former undefeated fighter Don Moore on a helipad atop the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai on May 14. He spoke with Moore during a press conference last week to promote the event which also features former UFC star Anderson Silva.
Mayweather admitted he accepted the promoter's decision to stage the press conference on the same day as Davis - who is signed to Mayweather's label - addressed the media ahead of his own upcoming bout. "It wasn't my idea; I didn't want the press conference to be on the same day (as Davis' press conference)," Mayweather told FightHype. "So they said, 'We will pay you a million dollars so we can make sure you can do it'. I wasn't going to do it Thursday... so we did it on Thursday.
