Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather blockbuster showdown confirmed for August 26 in Las Vegas                                Floyd Mayweather has named the date. Conor McGregor has been raring to go for weeks.

The biggest hybrid fight of all time will take place in Las Vegas on August 26.

It may well be that the hype will surpass the occasion but with his customary, control-freak timing, Mayweather has ensured another multi-million dollar extravaganza on that famous Strip.Whether the boxing purists take to the notion or not, this will be the biggest grossing event in the history of combat sports since Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao finally got it together to the tune of more than half a billion dollars between them.

Although this will be The Notorious Irishman's first orthodox boxing match and Mayweather will go into this cross between a fist fight and a circus spectacle, the Nevada State Athletic Commission have assured their Mr Money that all the relevant licenses and approvals will be forthcoming. McGregor's share of the bounty is thought to be in the region of $80m but a percentage of that will go to the UFC, his paymasters in his customary field of action mixed martial arts.

Mayweather, as astute a politician as he is a boxing genius, has timed the event to somewhat upstage his old adversary Oscar de la Hoya's staging of Mexican idol Canelo Alvarez against middleweight knockout supremo Gennady Golovkin.

De la Hoya stole the Mexico independence weekend date of September 16, when Mayweather has always preferred one of his two matches a year so as to draw large crowds across the border.