{"id":500147,"date":"2026-02-24T03:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:33:14","slug":"mayweather-to-fight-pacquiao-in-long-awaited-las-vegas-rematch-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500147\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather to fight Pacquiao in long-awaited Las Vegas rematch in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will meet in a long-awaited rematch of the highest-grossing clash in boxing history this September at the Sphere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The bout between two of boxing\u2019s biggest names \u2013 who famously fought a blockbuster clash in 2015 and are now both in their late forties \u2013 comes days after Mayweather announced he is coming out of retirement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It will be broadcast live September 19 on Netflix, as the global streaming platform increasingly moves into live sports with glitzy one-off events.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFloyd and I gave the world what remains the biggest fight in boxing history. The fans have waited long enough \u2013 they deserve this rematch,\u201d said Pacquiao, 47, in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mayweather beat fellow welterweight Pacquiao in their money-spinning 2015 \u201cFight of the Century\u201d, which generated a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys but largely failed to live up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manny Pacquiao returned to the ring last year to fight Mario Barrios. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8910bc8b-9077-4278-9c5d-b5867858634b_0ce12e1b.jpg\" title=\"Manny Pacquiao returned to the ring last year to fight Mario Barrios. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Manny Pacquiao returned to the ring last year to fight Mario Barrios. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mayweather is believed to have earned an estimated US$300 million from the unanimous points victory over the Filipino icon, which remains the most lucrative fight in history and generated more than US$600 million in revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will meet in a long-awaited rematch of the highest-grossing clash in boxing history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,4736,26700,9225,2623,2795,8199,435,277,17926,11019,85,959,787,3973],"class_list":{"0":"post-500147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-conor-mcgregor","13":"tag-floyd-mayweather","14":"tag-jake-paul","15":"tag-las-vegas","16":"tag-manny-pacquiao","17":"tag-mike-tyson","18":"tag-netflix","19":"tag-philippines","20":"tag-saul-canelo-alvarez","21":"tag-sphere","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-terence-crawford","24":"tag-ufc","25":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500147","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=500147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}