{"id":162171,"date":"2025-09-23T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162171\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:32:04","slug":"mayweather-jr-says-official-boxing-return-possible-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162171\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather Jr. Says Official Boxing Return Possible For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will return to action sometime in 2026 for an exhibition bout<\/a> against none other than former Heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson, in an exhibition bout that has many combat fans and experts scratching their heads.<\/p>\n

With the news of the 48-year old former pound-for-pound great making his return to the ring official, many are now wondering if \u201cMoney\u201d would ever put the gloves on for an official bout that will go on his record and put his undefeated mark of 50-0 at risk.<\/p>\n

According to Mayweather Jr. says it\u2019s a very big possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been talks. It is possible,\u201c said Mayweather in a recent conversation with TMZ Sports<\/a>. The former WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring Welterweight title holder went on to say to say it\u2019s not off the table because he feels good at his age.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all. I feel good, and working hard each and every day. I can not wait until 2026,\u201c he added.<\/p>\n

Mayweather has not competed in an official fight since defeating former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champ-champ, Conor McGregor, via tenth-round TKO way back in 2017 (more on that here<\/a>). Since then, however, \u201cMoney\u201d has taken part in several exhibition bouts, including facing and defeating<\/a> Logan Paul in 2021, with his most recent bout taking place in 2024 against John Gotti III (replay here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Recently, one of Mayweather\u2019s past rivals, Manny Pacquiao, returned to the ring at the age of 46<\/a> following a four-year layoff to face off against WBC Welterweight champion, Mario Barrios, going the distance which resulted in a majority draw<\/a>. Since \u201cPacman\u201d proved that age is nothing but a number, is there any reason to believe Mayweather can\u2019t come back and secure a win in a legit sanctioned bout?<\/p>\n

If so, who would you like to see him face?<\/p>\n

For more boxing news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr. will return to action sometime in 2026 for an exhibition bout against none other than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,43957,40762,85],"class_list":["post-162171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162171","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=162171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}