{"id":120844,"date":"2025-09-05T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120844\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:57:08","slug":"mike-tyson-floyd-mayweather-agree-to-exhibition-match-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120844\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather agree to exhibition match in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather have agreed to fight in an exhibition match in the spring of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>CSI Sports\/Fight Sports announced the exhibition Thursday but did not provide details on the date and location, saying they will be determined later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for 30 years, and there hasn\u2019t been a single fighter that can tarnish my legacy,\u201d Mayweather said in a news release. \u201cYou already know that if I am going to do something, it\u2019s going to be big and it\u2019s going to be legendary. I\u2019m the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition will give the fans what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather, 48, retired with an unbeaten record (50-0, 27 KOs) in 2017 after knocking out Conor McGregor. He has fought in eight exhibitions since, most recently against John Gotti III in Mexico City in August 2024. Mayweather notably faced off against social media star Logan Paul in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, 59, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5925790\/2024\/11\/16\/jake-paul-mike-tyson-boxing-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last fought in a professional match against influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul<\/a> at the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in November. The 28-year-old Paul breezed past Tyson, who landed just 18 punches in eight sluggish rounds, by unanimous decision. Tyson, one of the biggest stars in sports when he was at his height, looked like a shell of the boxer who had last fought professionally in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>His loss to Paul went on his professional record, lowering his career mark to 50-7, 44 KOs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fight is something neither the world nor I ever thought would or could happen,\u201d Mayweather said about the exhibition with Mayweather. \u201cHowever, boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable \u2014 and this fight is as unpredictable as it gets. I still can\u2019t believe Floyd wants to really do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be detrimental to his health, but he wants to do it, so it\u2019s signed and it\u2019s happening!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo of Floyd Mayweather in 2021: Jasen Vinlove \/ Imagn Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather have agreed to fight in an exhibition match in the spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-120844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}