Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor, improved his record to 50-0 (passing Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record), joined Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan as the only athletes to ever earn a billion dollars from sports and then called it quits (again).
LeBron James and JR Smith were some of the many NBA players who had either attended the event or were keenly watching at home.
Fingers ready on their keyboards, they typed away at the conclusion of the fight.
Here’s the collection of tweets.
Congrats @FloydMayweather!!! 50-0 is unprecedented!!!! Was a treat and honor to witness history.
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 27, 2017
S/O @TheNotoriousMMA!! Showed you're a champ and monster in your own right as well. Lot of respect!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 27, 2017
I'm not mad that I stayed up all night to watch this fight. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 @FloydMayweather is definitely TBE!!! @TheNotoriousMMA Much Respect!!
— DWade (@DwyaneWade) August 27, 2017
50-0. No slander will be tolerated! #TMT
— Karl-Anthony Towns (@KarlTowns) August 27, 2017
But let me say: I have an enormous amount of respect for @TheNotoriousMMA! Amazing fight! No reason to ever have his head down.
— Karl-Anthony Towns (@KarlTowns) August 27, 2017
A lotta respect for McGregor. Going into another sport showed how great of an athlete he is. Happy he walked away with a lot of $$$ too.
— Jabari Parker (@JabariParker) August 27, 2017
Man a lot of heart!!! But 50-0….sheesh!! Respect for both of these guys. History.
— Kevin Love (@kevinlove) August 27, 2017
For the culture 😂 ''twas a good fight
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) August 27, 2017
Respect to @TheNotoriousMMA for accepting the challenge.. but @FloydMayweather the greatest to ever do it! Great to witness history. 50-0
— Tyus Jones (@1Tyus) August 27, 2017
.@FloydMayweather is so precise😱. Bravo good sir. @TheNotoriousMMA ran out of gas but I like that he wanted to keep going even if KO. 💯
— Iman. (@imanshumpert) August 27, 2017
50-0! #LEGENDARY congrats champ @FloydMayweather
— Bradley Beal (@RealDealBeal23) August 27, 2017
Respect McGregor!
— Bradley Beal (@RealDealBeal23) August 27, 2017
Respect to them! Great fight🥊🥊 experience kicked in for sure
— Jamal Murray (@BeMore27) August 27, 2017
Hell of a show. Lot of respect to both of them for what they have become. #greatness
— Rudy Gobert (@rudygobert27) August 27, 2017
My Gregor is the truth but this fight was hyped up when we knew what would happen … ultimately https://t.co/CBnk1Vnnbd
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) August 27, 2017
He looked good for a lot of the fight https://t.co/CJsWq4eWJp
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) August 27, 2017
This was better then the pacquiao!! First time Floyd actually fight 👊🏾👊🏾
— Bismack Biyombo (@bismackbiyombo) August 27, 2017
Love that Floyd won, and love that Conor got paid.
— Trevor Booker (@35_Fitz) August 27, 2017
I still don't understand what Conor meant when he said that to Floyd after the fight 🤔
— Jordan Bell (@1jordanbell) August 27, 2017
Night Night 😴🥊 pic.twitter.com/9GXms0lEBL
— Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) August 27, 2017
50-0… not too bad for a career 😂
— Frank Ntilikina (@FrankLikina) August 27, 2017
Conor still the double champ I don't care what anyone say
— 7even (@iAmSJ) August 27, 2017
FLOYD MONEY MAYWEATHER!!!!!! That was super fun
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) August 27, 2017
RESPECT…💯💯💯 @FloydMayweather @TheNotoriousMMA #FloydMayweatherVSConorMcGregor pic.twitter.com/K9j2A0QOmq
— DeMarre Carroll (@DeMarreCarroll1) August 27, 2017