I think people did love mayweather as the best of the generation however he intentionally leveraged the general public’s bias in order to get more people to buy into his promotions even if it was simply to see him get knocked tf out
Great marketing strategy took lemons and made lemonade and earned himself a LOT more money out of it
Mcgregor the opposite end of the spectrum
Trolls and talks shit to get the biased people on board
Gets tucked in
Rinse and repeat