{"id":393807,"date":"2026-01-07T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:50:10","slug":"mike-tyson-announces-who-he-wants-to-fight-after-he-faces-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393807\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Announces Who He Wants To Fight After He Faces Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/mike-tyson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson<\/a> has revealed the one man he is interesting in facing after his upcoming exhibition clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed last September that former undisputed heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/tyson-says-where-he-is-fighting-mayweather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson would be facing countryman \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather in the first quarter of 2026. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyson made a sensational return to the sport in November of 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/42352328\/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-live-boxing-updates-results-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suffering a comprehensive unanimous decision defeat to Jake Paul<\/a> at the conclusion of their controversial heavyweight showdown in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>As for Mayweather, the 48-year-old from Michigan has not fought as a professional since he defeated Conor McGregor in August 2017, but the retired five-weight world champion has participated in a number of exhibition bouts since then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/mike-tyson-jake-paul-joshua-36432845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Speaking to The Mirror recently<\/a>, Tyson revealed that he is \u2018confident\u2019 heading into his clash with Mayweather, before revealing that he would be open to facing Paul in a potential rematch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m getting more and more confident, and I believe I\u2019ll be better in the [Mayweather] fight coming up \u2026 I\u2019m just hoping, after this Floyd fight, maybe we can have a rematch. Yes, I would be interested in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson was quite clearly a shadow of his once formidable self when he clashed with \u2018The Problem Child\u2019, connecting with just 18 of the punches that he threw at the former Youtube sensation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the 59-year-old from New York City appears to be set on proving a point when he faces \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather in what \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 claims will be the \u2018biggest event in boxing history\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson has revealed the one man he is interesting in facing after his upcoming exhibition clash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-393807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393807","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=393807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}