{"id":645611,"date":"2026-06-18T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:36:08","slug":"errol-spence-rates-floyd-mayweathers-chances-of-beating-pacquiao-in-rematch-at-49-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645611\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Spence rates Floyd Mayweather’s chances of beating Pacquiao in rematch at 49 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a matter of months, Floyd Mayweather is expected to make his professional comeback and rematch old rival, Manny Pacquiao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, former unified welterweight ruler and Mayweather sparring partner, Errol Spence Jr<\/a>, has offered his thoughts on the fight.<\/p>\n

After months of back-and-forth, an agreement appears to be on the horizon for Mayweather and Pacquiao<\/a> to collide for a second time, at respective ages of 49 and 47 years old, as \u2018TBE\u2019 ends nine years of professional inactivity and looks set to put his fabled 50-0 record on the line.<\/p>\n

There had been rumours that Mayweather may force the bout to be an exhibition and whilst that could still be the case, it seems as though a professional encounter is more likely for the mooted fight date of Friday, September 25, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Art of Ward podcast<\/a>, Spence admitted that he does not \u2018care for the fight\u2019 himself, but maintained that he sees little issue with the contest when both men are at a similar age, calling it a \u2018fair fight\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really care for it, at 50 [years old], but he is looking good. I guess it\u2019s two 50-year-old\u2019s fighting, at 147lbs, it is a fair fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to see him fighting someone that is 30 years old or fighting a young buck, he is fighting somebody his age and I don\u2019t know how true it is with his [financial] situation but it is something that he has probably got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Mayweather-Pacquiao II can be announced, Mayweather first fights Greek kickboxer Mike Zambidis in an exhibition in Athens, with that bout set to take place next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a matter of months, Floyd Mayweather is expected to make his professional comeback and rematch old rival,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645611","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\/645611","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=645611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}