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Boxing: Mayweather returns to ring for Feb 2021 Tokyo bout

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/ancx/culture/2019/24/2belo.jpg"/></figure></div><p>TOKYO, Japan -- Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organisers said Monday, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear.</p><p>The retired ex-champ had already dropped hints about the fight, which follows a widely ridiculed 2018 &quot;exhibition&quot; match against a Japanese kickboxer, but organisers offered more details on Monday.</p><p>It will be part of an event dubbed &quot;Mega 2021&quot;, being hosted at the Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital on February 28, the production committee said in a press release.</p><p>They said it would feature &quot;champion-class&quot; fighters, including Mayweather, but gave no further details -- including who the welterweight star will face, and under what conditions.</p><p>Last week the 43-year-old shared a video on Instagram teasing the fight.</p><p>&quot;Tokyo, Japan, I&#x27;m coming back, in 2021,&quot; he said in the clip.</p><p>&quot;I know the Olympics is in Japan in 2021, but me, myself, Floyd &#x27;Money&#x27; Mayweather and my team will be doing something big in Tokyo Dome... Japan, I&#x27;m on my way.&quot;</p><p>Mayweather retired three years ago, and although he had previously announced he was &quot;coming out of retirement in 2020&quot;, he hasn&#x27;t been seen in action this year.</p><p>A legend in the boxing world with an unbeaten 50-0 record, Mayweather is no stranger to Japan, where he fought an exhibition match against MMA star Tenshin Nasukawa in December 2018 -- the last time he was coaxed out of retirement for a big payday.</p><p>Mayweather floored the kickboxer less than half his age three times in the first round before the Japanese fighter&#x27;s trainer rushed in to stop the fight.</p><p>Mayweather hinted online that he earned $9 million for the two-minute fight.</p><p>In 2017, Mayweather knocked out mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor in the 10th round of a super-hyped boxing match.</p><p>And in 2015, he defeated Philippine boxing megastar Manny Pacquiao in their &quot;Fight of the Century&quot; -- which largely failed to live up to the hype.</p><p>Mayweather is believed to have earned an estimated $300 million from the points victory over Pacquiao, which remains the most lucrative fight in history and generated more than $600 million in revenue.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kppa3SVEddM?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organizers said Monday, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear.</p>

Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organizers said Monday, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear.