{"id":486683,"date":"2026-02-17T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486683\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:03:09","slug":"report-tyson-mayweather-exhibition-set-for-april-25-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486683\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Tyson-Mayweather exhibition set for April 25 in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight in an exhibition match April 25 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/2023534108845240739?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ring&#8217;s Mike Coppinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bout was originally announced in early September but without a date or location. The initial announcement only said the fight would happen in the spring of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson (50-6-2, 44 KOs) lost his last fight by unanimous decision against Jake Paul in November 2024. The former heavyweight champion turns 60 in June.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs) has been participating in exhibitions since retiring from pro competition in 2017. The soon-to-be 49-year-old last entered the ring vs. John Gotti III in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be promoted by CSI Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight in an exhibition match April 25 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-486683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486683","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=486683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}