WeeklySA_AdminCLARITY: Details on a date, location, television partner and any potential professional sanctioning of the bout not immediately released…
By Own Correspondent
The boxing world was hit with a big announcement when former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and former multi-division champion Floyd Mayweather agreed to a bout to be held in the spring of 2026.
The event will be put on by CSI Sports/Fight Sports but details regarding the date, location, broadcasters and rules are yet to be announced.
Tyson (59) is a former undisputed heavyweight champion while Mayweather (48,) retired undefeated after 50 fights, winning multiple titles across a number of weight classes. “This fight is something neither the world nor I ever thought would or could happen. However, boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable and this fight is as unpredictable as it gets,” said Tyson.
Tyson is competing for the first time since ending his 19-year retirement in November in a controversial defeat by Jake Paul. He spent the entirety of his career, which yielded 50 wins from 59 fights, at heavyweight while the latter stages of Mayweather’s career were at welterweight.
Mayweather, who has won titles across five weight classes, has competed in a number of exhibition bouts since retiring in 2017 with his last outing coming against John Gotti III last August.
Formal winners are not usually declared in exhibitions and the results do not count towards either fighter’s career record. “You already know that if I am going to do something, it’s going to be big and it’s going to be legendary,” said Mayweather.
“I’m the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition will give the fans what they want.”
CBS News reported yesterday that, while Mayweather noted that the bout would be an exhibition, meaning it wouldn’t be sanctioned by an athletic commission or count toward either fighter’s professional record, this was not confirmed by the fight promoters. But the sanctioning of the bout is just one of multiple outstanding questions surrounding this clash between two of the biggest names in boxing history, CBS News noted.
Mayweather won world titles across five different weights, going unbeaten during his 50-fight career which ended with a victory over MMA star Conor McGregor in 2017. – Fullview
