{"id":481138,"date":"2026-02-17T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481138\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:33:19","slug":"report-tyson-mayweather-exhibition-set-for-april-25-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481138\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Tyson-Mayweather exhibition set for April 25 in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight in an exhibition match April 25 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/2023534108845240739?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ring&#8217;s Mike Coppinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bout was originally announced in early September but without a date or location. The initial announcement only said the fight would happen in the spring of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson (50-6-2, 44 KOs) lost his last fight by unanimous decision against Jake Paul in November 2024. The former heavyweight champion turns 60 in June.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs) has been participating in exhibitions since retiring from pro competition in 2017. The soon-to-be 49-year-old last entered the ring vs. John Gotti III in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be promoted by CSI Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight in an exhibition match April 25 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-481138","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\/481138","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=481138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}