a recent livestream<\/a>, the three-weight world champion backed \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather without any doubt.<\/p>\n\u201cPacMan versus Floyd. Floyd gonna cook [him]. Bet all your money \u2026 The GOAT. Bet whatever on Floyd, he gonna outbox him, make it easy, get his cheque, go home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prediction, whilst boosted by a personal connection to Mayweather, speaks to Stevenson\u2019s preferred style of fighting, and how impactful he knows that the old mantra of \u2018hit and don\u2019t get hit\u2019 can be inside the ropes.<\/p>\n
Mayweather retired in 2017 and has only stepped through the ropes for exhibitions since. He is, however, known to keep himself in tremendous shape.<\/p>\n
Pacquiao benefitted from a full training camp last year before his pro return against then welterweight world champion Mario Barrios, fighting to a draw and thus not winning the belt to break his own record as the division\u2019s oldest world champion.<\/p>\n
The fight will be streamed live on Netflix, with plenty of supporting content expected in the months prior.<\/a> Two previously announced exhibition bouts \u2013 Mike Tyson for Mayweather and Ruslan Provodnikov for Pacquiao \u2013 could now be reconsidered due to the magnitude of the rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the greatest defensive fighters of all time, Floyd Mayweather, returns to the ring this September for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-506894","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\/506894","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=506894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}