{"id":913765,"date":"2026-09-29T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:54:09","slug":"floyd-mayweather-confirms-his-next-fight-wont-be-against-manny-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913765\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather confirms his next fight won&#8217;t be against Manny Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather has teased a \u201cbig\u201d fight announcement after being forced to abandon three opportunities that were planned for this year.<\/p>\n<p>The first was an exhibition match with former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, with both legends set to meet in the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 25.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather was then scheduled to face former kickboxer Mike Zambidis in June, when the pair\u2019s exhibition was supposed to take place in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Along with those events, however, it was eventually revealed that Mayweather\u2019s professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao would be cancelled, given that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/49113639\/floyd-mayweather-hit-lawsuit-tyson-pacquiao-bouts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">found to have breached his contract with CSI Sports Events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By this point, the Tyson exhibition was reportedly being rescheduled but, with Mayweather agreeing to face Zambidis \u2013 and, in turn, breaching his contract \u2013 CSI decided to hit the American with a multi-million dollar lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, none of his planned opportunities ever materialised and, while <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/pacquiao-team-on-mayweather-postponement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Pacquiao fight is rumoured to be postponed to 2027<\/a>, it remains to be seen whether it will actually take place.<\/p>\n<p>If it does, then Mayweather could end up putting his 50-0 record on the line and fighting professionally for the first time since 2017, when he stopped Conor McGregor in 10 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atsboxing\/status\/2104029685663351043\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Hall of Famer has claimed<\/a> that his next outing \u2013 most likely the Zambidis exhibition \u2013 will be staged in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a big one coming up on the Wynn Records Network. The exhibition in Greece is next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TBE \u274c WYNN RECORDS<\/p>\n<p>Floyd Mayweather just announced that his next fight will be in Greece on Wynn Records Network \ud83d\udc40 <\/p>\n<p>Catch Salita Promotions LIVE from San Juan on the Wynn Records Network NOW! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rt3mBv8Nfx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rt3mBv8Nfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ALL THE SMOKE Boxing (@atsboxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atsboxing\/status\/2104029685663351043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather shared this update during a Salita Promotions show on Wynn Records Network, speaking as if the event will definitely be going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather has teased a \u201cbig\u201d fight announcement after being forced to abandon three opportunities that were planned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-913765","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\/913765","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=913765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}