{"id":119840,"date":"2025-09-05T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119840\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:26:10","slug":"mike-tyson-vs-floyd-mayweather-jr-fight-announced-date-latest-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119840\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson vs Floyd Mayweather Jr fight announced, date, latest details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather have reached a deal on a potential exhibition fight in 2026, promoter CSI Sports has announced.<\/p>\n<p>No date or location was given for the bout, but CSI said heavyweight great Tyson and undefeated multi-weight champ Mayweather would meet in \u201cSpring 2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, 59, built a 50-7 record with 44 knockouts in a career in which he established himself as the most feared heavyweight of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>He last appeared in the ring in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/boxing\/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-live-updates-full-fight-card-results-start-time-in-australia-how-to-watch-highlights-video-boxing\/news-story\/e28732f8eb3960287f3333ac6b360612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">lopsided loss to Youtuber-turned prizefighter Jake Paul<\/a> last November in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Watch The 2025 World Boxing Championships LIVE on Kayo Sports 4-14 Sept | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/event\/sport!boxing\/event-world-boxing-championship-ring-1!251983?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkboxing-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-box-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyson barely landed a punch in that eight-round bout, which was nevertheless watched by a live crowd of around 70,000 spectators with an estimated millions more tuning in around the world.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756769048_562_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former world champion Mayweather, 48, retired from boxing in 2017, unbeaten in 50 bouts as he won world titles in five weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>But he has continued to appear in exhibitions, including a victory over John Gotti III in Mexico in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen CSI came to me about stepping in the ring with Floyd Mayweather, I thought, \u2018No way this happens,\u2019 but Floyd said yes,\u201d Tyson said in a statement released by CSI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fight is something neither the world nor I ever thought would or could happen. However, boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable &#8212; and this fight is as unpredictable as it gets.\u201cI still can\u2019t believe Floyd wants to really do this. It\u2019s going to be detrimental to his health, but he wants to do it, so it\u2019s signed and it\u2019s happening!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather have reached a deal on a potential exhibition fight in 2026, promoter CSI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[2095,13341,64,63,802,2831,84725,2791,84724,26700,9225,2184,11850,8199,2041,2067,51852,85,3370,84726,2614,61531,63432,2753],"class_list":["post-119840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-america","tag-arlington","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-icons","tag-central-america","tag-csi-sports","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-jake-paul","tag-mexico","tag-michael-zerafa","tag-mike-tyson","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-shock-announcement","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-undefeated-multi-weight-champ","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-weight-classes","tag-world-boxing-championships","tag-world-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}