Floyd Mayweather Jr. has announced a return to boxing after retiring from the sport nearly 10 years ago.
Mayweather, 48, said that through a partnership with CSI Sports/FIGHT SPORTS, he would return to the ring, professionally, following his planned upcoming exhibition with heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson.
Just before his 49th birthday, Mayweather told ESPN that he feels that he can do more, and make more dollars, in boxing.
‘I still have what it takes to set more records in the sport of boxing,’ Mayweather said. ‘From my upcoming Mike Tyson event to my next professional fight afterwards — no one will generate a bigger gate, have a larger global broadcast audience and generate more money with each event — than my events. And I plan to keep doing it with my global media partner, CSI Sports/FIGHT SPORTS.’
When did Floyd Mayweather retire?
Mayweather first retired at age 40 with an all-time record of 50-0 following his last professional fight against MMA star Conor McGregor in August 2017.
However, because he’s been fighting exhibition matches, they don’t count towards his record.
How old is Floyd Mayweather Jr.?
Mayweather is 48 years old. He turns 49 on Feb. 24.
When will Mayweather fight again, professionally?
During an Oct. 29 episode of Inside the Ring, Ring Magazine’s Mike Coppinger said sources told him a rematch between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was being ‘seriously discussed.’
While they ‘went their separate ways,’ then, as Ring reported Friday, could a rematch now materialize?
‘This was the biggest fight in boxing history when it happened,’ Coppinger said then. ‘I think all these years, a rematch if it happens, especially after the way Pacquiao looked in July against (Mario) Barrios. There’d be serious interest.’
Mayweather and Pacquiao, 47, first fought in what was called the ‘Fight of the Century’ on May 2, 2015, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Mayweather won by unanimous decision.