{"id":116041,"date":"2025-09-05T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116041\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:17:17","slug":"mike-tyson-v-floyd-mayweather-former-world-champions-to-compete-in-exhibition-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116041\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson v Floyd Mayweather: Former world champions to compete in exhibition bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world champions Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are set to compete in an exhibition bout next year.<\/p>\n

The event will be put on by CSI Sports\/Fight Sports but details regarding the date, location, broadcasters and rules are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Tyson, 59, is a former undisputed heavyweight champion while Mayweather, 48, retired undefeated after 50 fights, winning multiple titles across a number of weight classes.<\/p>\n

“This fight is something neither the world nor I ever thought would or could happen. However, boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable and this fight is as unpredictable as it gets,” said Tyson.<\/p>\n

Tyson is competing for the first time since ending his 19-year retirement in November in a controversial defeat by Jake Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He spent the entirety of his career, which yielded 50 wins from 59 fights, at heavyweight while the latter stages of Mayweather’s career were at welterweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champions Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are set to compete in an exhibition bout next year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-116041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}