Help me out here. I'm confused. Is Floyd fighting on Dec 31?

[Peat56]

I hear its on, then off, then on again, then it was all a joke, then its real.

Latest I hear is that Maywether is fighting a kickboxer in a 3 round exhibition on New Year's Eve.

Is this true? And are they boxing?


And does ANYONE care? and moreover, does the "fight" of any meaning of consequence to anyone??

[Primetyme199]

Yes, he's boxing in a 3 round exhibition against a kickboxer that fights at 125 pounds.

The only one that cares is Floyd since he'll be getting paid. The only way there will be any other interest in this is if Floyd ends up losing.

[Danielk015]

Yes, he's boxing in a 3 round exhibition against a kickboxer that fights at 125 pounds.

The only one that cares is Floyd since he'll be getting paid. The only way there will be any other interest in this is if Floyd ends up losing.

do you know how much Floyd is getting for this farce?

[Primetyme199]

Nothing has come out yet from any reliable source.

[Primetyme199]

Here’s the rule set.

[Primetyme199]

By Keith Idec

Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s boxing exhibition in Japan won’t be made available through conventional television outlets to consumers in the United States the morning of New Year’s Eve.

Multiple sources have informed BoxingScene.com that the three-round Mayweather-Tenshin Nasukawa bout won’t be broadcast live in the U.S. on December 31 from Saitama, Japan. It’ll air live in Japan on Fuji TV as part of promoter RIZIN Fighting Federation’s partnership with that prominent network.

Mayweather will be paid handsomely by RIZIN for facing its 20-year-old star kickboxer/mixed martial artist, but this will be the first of his fights in more than 20 years that won’t receive television exposure in his home country. Each of the 41-year-old Mayweather’s bouts have been broadcast either by HBO or Showtime, or the pay-per-view divisions of those networks, since 1998.

[the13r]

[gilgamesh]

It's just an exhibition, but I figure the only way this is worthwhile to the promoters is that Tenshin really intends to get in there, and embarrass Floyd. If it's just gonna be a friendly little sparring match I don't see how it's possibly worth their while to pay Floyd what he's surely demanded to be paid.

The size differential is likely too great for Tenshin to do too much here. Especially since it's just a straight boxing match.