{"id":746100,"date":"2026-06-19T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746100\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:17:08","slug":"floyd-mayweather-jr-facing-lawsuit-over-tyson-and-pacquiao-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746100\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Jr facing lawsuit over Tyson and Pacquiao fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">TMZ Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/18\/floyd-mayweather-sued-by-promoters-over-mike-tyson-manny-pacquiao-fights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brings word<\/a> that CSI Entertainment is suing Floyd Mayweather Jr, seeking to claim damages for \u201cMoney\u2019s\u201d ill-fated bouts with Mike Tyson and Manny Pacquiao and to stop him from facing Mike Zambidis next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The news comes just days after ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/116586\/floyd-mayweather-facing-felony-charges-over-bad-check-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that Mayweather (50-0, 27 KO) got slapped with felony charges over a bad check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Per the report, things were similarly chaotic behind the scenes. CSI alleges that they paid $4.5 million for the rights to both the Tyson and Pacquiao bouts, only for Mayweather to go behind their backs, set up the Zambidis bout with a separate promoter, and \u201csecretly [sign] a separate deal with another company to stream the fight with Pacquiao on Netflix from the Sphere in Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The laws of comedy demand that Mayweather face a third, equally humiliating legal dispute in the immediate future, so we\u2019ll keep you in the loop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TMZ Sports brings word that CSI Entertainment is suing Floyd Mayweather Jr, seeking to claim damages for \u201cMoney\u2019s\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[22144,64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-746100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-amateur-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746100","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=746100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}