{"id":509786,"date":"2026-03-02T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:51:10","slug":"floyd-mayweather-to-participate-in-exhibition-before-rematching-manny-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509786\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather to participate in exhibition before rematching Manny Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Floyd Mayweather will end his retirement from boxing later this year when he\u2019ll rematch Manny Pacquiao this September, but it looks like he\u2019ll be looking to shake some rust off before then as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13514187\/floyd-mayweather-to-have-exhibition-against-kickboxer-mike-zambidis-in-athens-before-manny-pacquiao-rematch-in-september\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a> reports that he\u2019s due to first take part in a exhibition bout against former kickboxer Mike Zambidis this June in Athens, Greece. If you\u2019re getting a strange sense of deja vu, it\u2019s because it was also just recently announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/113370\/oleksandr-usyk-to-face-former-kickboxing-champion-rico-verhoeven-may-23-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk will be also fighting another former kickboxer<\/a> in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201c2026 is already shaping up to be an exciting year for me,\u201d Mayweather said. \u201cEurope, I\u2019m on the way to entertain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Admittedly, I can\u2019t tell you all that much about Zambidis other than he\u2019s a 45-year-old former kickboxer who hasn\u2019t fought in over a decade, but participated in one professional boxing match back in 2019, winning a four round decision over a very low-level opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mayweather, on the other hand, is an all-time great boxer and while time may have eroded some of his physical gifts, he\u2019s still far and away more skilled in the ring than any fighter who can\u2019t even be counted as a true professional in this particular sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather will end his retirement from boxing later this year when he\u2019ll rematch Manny Pacquiao this September,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-509786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509786","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=509786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}