Mother of Floyd Mayweather's children calls out Conor McGregor for domestic abuse exploitation

Conor McGregor never once mentioned Floyd Mayweather’s history of domestic abuse during their four-day world tour to promote their upcoming boxing match.

McGregor’s recent Instagram spat with Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, however, cut deep for one of Mayweather’s victims.

Josie Harris, Mayweather’s former long-term partner and mother to three of his four children, called out McGregor in a statement to TMZ, criticizing the UFC lightweight champion’s decision to wear the jersey of former Warriors player C.J. Watson.

“Conor McGregor’s exploitation of the events surrounding Mayweather’s violent beating of Josie Harris, for the sole purpose of promoting an upcoming boxing match and taunting his opponent in the ongoing media-driven feud between the two fighters, demonstrates not only an insensitivity toward the emotional well being and privacy of the victim of Mayweather’s domestic violence, but also a general disregard for the physical and emotional trauma and long-lasting psychological impacts suffered by the victims of domestic abuse,” Harris’ attorney, Dan Friedlander, said in a statement.

The significance of McGregor’s subtle trash-talk is that affectionate text messages between Harris and Watson are what prompted the 2010 beating of Harris by Mayweather, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery and served a two-month jail term.

Harris, through her attorney, said McGregor’s actions demonstrate “a lack of sensitivity” toward her and her three children who witnessed the attack.

“Although McGregor played no part in Mayweather’s physical and emotional abuse of Harris, his exploitation of the events of September 9, 2010 for publicity, entertainment, and personal gain, demonstrates a lack of sensitivity toward Harris and her three children who witnessed Mayweather’s violence and the trauma they have suffered, and continue to suffer,” Friedlander said.

“By sensationalizing Mayweather’s past acts of domestic violence to create entertainment and promotional value, McGregor trivializes domestic violence in disregard for the privacy and well being of those who have suffered at the hands of abuse, further compounding the emotional and psychological trauma, shaming, humiliation, blaming and embarrassment suffered by so many victims.”

Wearing Watson’s jersey wasn’t the first time McGregor has invoked the incident as an attempt to get inside Mayweather’s head. McGregor also sent out this tweet back in January.

McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) and Mayweather (49-0 boxing) face off on Aug. 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a pay-per-view event expected to be the most lucrative prize fight of all time.

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