Floyd Mayweather will return, kinda, in an exhibition matchup on June 27 against kickboxer Mike Zambidis, and DAZN have picked up the event, meaning you can watch through the service you almost certainly already have as a boxing fan in 2026.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will take place in Athens, Greece, giving Zambidis home advantage for something that probably won\u2019t have an announced winner.<\/p>\n
Mayweather turned 49 in February and hasn\u2019t had an official fight since 2017, when he beat Conor McGregor. His last real bout against a legitimate pro boxer came in September 2015, when he beat Andre Berto. He\u2019s had many exhibitions in recent years, but has made bigger headlines from his ongoing financial issues.<\/p>\n
Zambidis turns 46 in mid-July and has a career kickboxing record of 157-24. Like Mayweather, he hasn\u2019t really been an active fighter in over a decade.<\/p>\n
Mayweather tentatively has his actual return to pro boxing scheduled for September in a rematch with Manny Pacquiao, which would air on Netflix.<\/p>\n
That fight was meant to be at The Sphere, but now won\u2019t be, as the venue has instead booked an Eagles residency, which is probably smart on the venue\u2019s end, because you can be sure the Eagles will actually be there. Mayweather vs Pacquiao 2 was also originally slated for September 19, but recent word is it may be pushed back six or seven days to September 25 or 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather will return, kinda, in an exhibition matchup on June 27 against kickboxer Mike Zambidis, and DAZN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,6839,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631891","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=631891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}