Floyd Mayweather is to face Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of the richest fight in history in Las Vegas on 19 September.<\/p>\n
Netflix will broadcast the second instalment of their rivalry, which will be held at the Sphere, in what will be the 48-year-old Mayweather’s first professional fight since 2017.<\/p>\n
The two outstanding boxers of their generation met in the ‘Fight of the Century’ in 2015, which saw Mayweather register a unanimous points win to retain the WBA, WBC and WBO welterweight world titles.<\/p>\n
It was the highest-grossing event in the sport, generating revenue reportedly in the region of \u00a3445 million (\u20ac388.7m).<\/p>\n
“I already fought and beat Manny once. This time will be the same result,” said Mayweather, who has a 50-0 record.<\/p>\n
Pacquiao, 47, has been active well beyond Mayweather’s professional retirement, with his most recent outing being a majority draw against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in July, also in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
“Floyd and I gave the world what remains the biggest fight in boxing history,” Pacquiao said.<\/p>\n
“The fans have waited long enough-they deserve this rematch, and it will be even bigger now that it will be streamed live globally on Netflix.<\/p>\n
“I want Floyd to live with the one loss on his professional record and always remember who gave it to him.<\/p>\n
“As always, I dedicate this fight to my fellow Filipinos around the world and to bringing glory to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather is to face Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of the richest fight in history in Las…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-314504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}