{"id":501719,"date":"2026-03-29T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:03:07","slug":"floyd-mayweather-says-manny-pacquiao-rematch-will-not-be-a-professional-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501719\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather says Manny Pacquiao rematch will not be a professional fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Mayweather has made a surprise claim regarding his planned rematch against Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mayweather and Pacquiao first met back in May 2015 after years of anticipation, and while it may have been a massive event commercially, the action failed to live up to the hype, as Mayweather claimed a unanimous decision win in an underwhelming battle.<\/p>\n

Over a decade on, it was announced last month<\/a> that they would collide for the second time in a professional contest at The Sphere in Las Vegas on September 19, with Mayweather set to end his retirement after hanging up his gloves back in 2017.<\/p>\n

The American has now cast doubt over those plans, after he revealed to Vegas Sports Today<\/a> that the bout with Pacquiao will be an exhibition, and that the venue is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sphere is one of the places that they talked about, so we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s 100% going to be there. It\u2019s not actually a fight, it\u2019s an exhibition. We\u2019re going to do it again and hopefully entertain the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got an exhibition with Mike Tyson also, another exhibition in Greece. If I\u2019m just sitting at home and working out everyday and spending time with my grandson and children, I said why not go out, have a little fun, entertain and have some exhibitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather\u2019s exhibition with Tyson was initially reported to take place in April, though an injury to \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 appears to have delayed proceedings.<\/a><\/p>\n

A bout against Greek kickboxer Mike Zambidis in June was then set to be next for Mayweather, before the planned fight with Pacquiao, though the claim from the American that it won\u2019t be a professional contest is certain to disappoint boxing fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather has made a surprise claim regarding his planned rematch against Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather and Pacquiao first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501719","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\/501719","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=501719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}