Remembering That Whole CJ Watson Thing with McGregor
So, I remember back when the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight was heating up. All that crazy press tour stuff, right? I kept hearing Mayweather shout out “CJ Watson!” at McGregor. Honestly, at first, I was like, who the heck is CJ Watson and why does this keep coming up? It didn’t immediately click.
Naturally, I got curious. Felt like I had to figure it out, you know? So I started digging around online a bit when I had some downtime. Spent some time reading through articles and fan forums, trying to piece together why this basketball player’s name was being thrown around in a boxing match build-up. Took a bit of reading, you know, connecting the dots.
What I Found Out
Turns out, it went back years. It wasn’t just random trash talk. It was tied to Mayweather’s past, specifically that awful domestic violence situation involving Josie Harris, the mother of his kids. The story I pieced together was that she had supposedly been texting or communicating with CJ Watson around the time of the incident. Mayweather apparently found out about these messages, and that was reportedly a factor in what happened that night. So him bringing up Watson’s name to McGregor was like digging up this really dark, complicated piece of his own history. And he was weaponizing it, throwing it right in McGregor’s face during these huge public events, trying to get under his skin or maybe just show how ruthless he could be.
Watching those press conferences back then… man, it was something else. A real circus. You’d see Mayweather screaming about CJ Watson, totally unprompted sometimes, and the crowd would react, but it always felt kinda… uncomfortable. Out of place, even with all the other wild stuff they were saying. McGregor, he usually had quick, sharp comebacks for everything Mayweather threw at him, but that one seemed to land differently. Sometimes he’d try to brush it off or fire back with something unrelated, other times it just hung there awkwardly. It was just nasty, felt like using something really serious and painful just to sell tickets and score points.
How It Felt Watching
I gotta say, it made me feel a bit weird about the whole promotion. I like watching the big fights, enjoy the hype and the back-and-forth sometimes, but that specific tactic felt like it crossed a line for me. Bringing up details connected to a domestic violence case, even indirectly like that, just to taunt an opponent? Felt pretty low, honestly. Didn’t really make me more excited for the fight or make me root for Mayweather more, that’s for sure. It just added this layer of unpleasantness to the whole spectacle for me personally.
Thinking back on it now, years later, it really stands out as just another crazy element of that absolute media storm. The custom suits, the arguments about money, the insults flying everywhere nonstop. But the whole CJ Watson angle, that specific bit of trash talk, it stuck with me more than the usual stuff about fighting skills or records. Just seemed extra messed up, tangled up in something genuinely serious.
So yeah, that’s my recollection of following and trying to understand the whole CJ Watson thing during the McGregor fight build-up. Just a weird, uncomfortable footnote in that whole saga, I guess. Took some time to figure out what was even being referenced back then.
