{"id":437738,"date":"2026-02-21T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:21:09","slug":"floyd-mayweather-ends-retirement-again-to-return-to-professional-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437738\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather ends retirement again to return to professional boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world champion Floyd Mayweather has announced he will come out of retirement for a fourth time later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 48-year-old, whose most recent retirement was in 2017, is due to face former undisputed world heavyweight champions Mike Tyson in an exhibition bout this spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Mayweather has confirmed he will return to professional boxing for the first time in nine years after that fight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While an opponent has not yet been announced, it will be Mayweather&#8217;s first professional fight since beating mixed martial arts fight Conor McGregor with a 10th-round technical knockout in 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayweather won titles across five weight classes during his career, and his victory over McGregor secured his 50th professional win to remain undefeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I still have what it takes to set more records in the sport of boxing,&#8221; Mayweather said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world champion Floyd Mayweather has announced he will come out of retirement for a fourth time later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-437738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437738","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=437738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}