{"id":122469,"date":"2025-09-08T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:19:09","slug":"tyson-and-mayweather-to-fight-in-exhibition-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122469\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson and Mayweather to fight in exhibition match"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tyson <\/a>Tyson (L) and Mayweather(R) are regarded as two of the best boxers of all time<\/p>\n

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 several 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.<\/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

Mayweather, who has won titles across five weight classes, has competed in a number of exhibition bouts since retiring in 2017, with his last outing coming against John Gotti III last August.<\/p>\n

Formal winners are not usually declared in exhibitions, and the results do not count towards either fighter’s career record.<\/p>\n

“You already know that if I am going to do something, it’s going to be big and it’s going to be legendary,” said Mayweather.<\/p>\n

“I’m the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition will give the fans what they want.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson (L) and Mayweather(R) are regarded as two of the best boxers of all time Former world champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-122469","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\/122469","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=122469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}