Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor camps set date for first press conference

The pair will meet the media together for the first time next week

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will meet the media together for the first time next week at a press conference to promote their super-fight on 26 August.

The pair will take questions from journalists at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 11 July, next Tuesday, with the event being the first in a multi-city press tour.

Tickets for this first press conference at the 20,000-capacity arena are free and will be available to members of the public from 8.00pm BST on Friday.

Details of further media events are yet to be confirmed, though it is expected that the pair will also make at least one appearance on the other side of the Atlantic before meeting in the ring.

A statement on the Staples Center's official website said: “This will be a star-studded event that will feature a live performance and special guests. We invite all fans to come out and be a part of history and ticket is required to enter.”

Regarded by many as the finest boxer of his generation, Mayweather is duly considered the overwhelming favourite for the Las Vegas fight.

UFC lightweight champion McGregor, meanwhile, will be making his professional boxing debut when he enters the ring on 26 August.

Earlier this week, UFC president Dana White admitted that a McGregor victory would be the biggest upset in sporting history.

“If Conor McGregor knocks out Floyd Mayweather, tell me something bigger,“ he told mixed martial arts website MMAJunkie. “He’ll be the biggest athlete on the f****** planet. It’ll be absolute madness.”