{"id":571457,"date":"2026-03-30T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:45:08","slug":"mp-promotions-respond-to-floyd-mayweathers-confusing-comments-on-manny-pacquiao-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571457\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Promotions Respond to Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s Confusing Comments on Manny Pacquiao Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn\u2019t take long for MP Promotions executive Jas Mathur to respond on social media to Floyd Mayweather\u2019s confusing comments over the weekend in Las Vegas that his rematch with Manny Pacquiao is little more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxing-social.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing<\/a> exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>It is a far cry from official wording from a statement Netflix sent to Boxing Social in February to confirm the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayweather\u00a0and Pacquiao\u00a0will meet in a professional rematch on Saturday, September 19, at The Sphere in Las Vegas,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix was very specific that the match-up would see Mayweather \u201cofficially coming out of retirement\u201d which would thus put his unbeaten 50-0 record on the line.<\/p>\n<p>When Mayweather spoke to Vegas Sports Today, a prominent Las Vegas sports brand who were covering the Sebastian Fundora vs Keith Thurman event in the city, Floyd cast doubt on the above and said, instead, it would be an unofficial sparring match no different than his exhibitions against Logan Paul, or his upcoming one with Mike Tyson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxing-social.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-fight-is-an-exhibition-not-a-pro-bout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThis is not actually a fight,\u201d the 48-year-old said<\/a>, \u201cit\u2019s an exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the venue was far from a done deal, which would be no surprise to UFC boss Dana White, who said, in response to the announcement of the boxing event at The Sphere, that Mayweather and Pacquiao would require significant sponsorship to offset the runaway production costs \u2014 something he benefited from when Riyadh Season sponsored a UFC show at the state-of-the-art property, after White told Boxing Social he\u2019d sunk $20 million into the graphic design and other imagery. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sphere is one of the places that they talked about, so we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s 100% going to be there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What remains a surprise, is Mayweather\u2019s insistence it\u2019s \u201can exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Jas Mathur, the executive behind MP Promotions, Manny Pacquiao\u2019s fight firm, appeared unfazed when responding on social media. \u201cMen lie, women lie, executed binding agreements don\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is a clear disagreement over what this fight will actually be, all parties seem on the same page when it comes to doing \u201cit again and hopefully entertaining the people,\u201d Mayweather said.<\/p>\n<p>MUST READ:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn\u2019t take long for MP Promotions executive Jas Mathur to respond on social media to Floyd Mayweather\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-571457","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\/571457","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=571457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}