{"id":501412,"date":"2026-02-24T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501412\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:49:10","slug":"run-that-fade-back-mayweather-pacquiao-2-planned-for-september-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501412\/","title":{"rendered":"Run That Fade Back: Mayweather-Pacquiao 2 Planned For September | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather Jr. wasn\u2019t joking. The fighter, who turns 49 today and retired nine years ago, said last week that he planned to return to active prizefighting after an exhibition with Mike Tyson next month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently, he was serious. Mayweather has reportedly inked a September 3 rematch with Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, per Ring Magazine\u2019s Mike Coppinger, re-litigating the biggest event and one of the biggest paydays of his career. When the two originally fought in Vegas in May 2015, it was the most hyped fight of boxing\u2019s pay-per-view era. Both fighters were multi-division world champions at the apex of their fame, and fans clamored for years for them to settle who was the best of the era. Mayweather won a unanimous decision, unifying the welterweight world championship and earning a reported $250 million for 36 minutes of work.<\/p>\n

Unless he\u2019s really bored spending all of his money, Mayweather seemingly has little reason to jump back into the hurt business. He\u2019s a grandfather and an Olympic medalist who beat every opponent he squared up with. He innovated in his sport, ditching his promoters to own his megafights. That earned him so much money\u2014The Sporting News<\/a> put his active career earnings at $1.billion, making him one of only 11 athletes to ever gross 10 figures from their sports\u2014that he changed his nickname from \u201cPretty Boy\u201d to \u201cMoney Mayweather\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fans had time to poke fun at the fighters\u2019 ages on social media on Monday after news broke.<\/p>\n

Mayweather officially retired from active prizefighting with a\u00a0 50-0 record after beating MMA legend Conor McGregor in 2017, while Pacquiao, 47, has fought eight more times since then, beating several former world champions and last fighting to a draw against Mario Barrios in Las Vegas last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr. wasn\u2019t joking. The fighter, who turns 49 today and retired nine years ago, said last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-501412","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\/501412","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=501412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}