The boxing legend nonetheless believes he’ll battle the YouTube movie star in 2021.
Floyd Mayweather believes that he’ll nonetheless battle YouTube movie star Logan Paul after the unique date for the pay-per-view battle was put back.
The duo was anticipated to battle in an exhibition on February 20 in an occasion funded by the Fanmio app. Nevertheless, the plans have been then postponed, with a brand new date but to be confirmed. A summer season occasion may conjure up extra income if the coronavirus pandemic markedly recedes as it could enable spectators into an occasion to boost significant ticket gross sales. Talking to TMZ, Mayweather confirmed that he anticipated {that a} conflict would nonetheless go forward.
“I do know it’ll occur. We’re simply going to verify all the things’s proper. Every little thing’s the place it must be,” Mayweather mentioned. “I am not in coaching, however I all the time try to preserve my weight and maintain my physique in some kind of fine situation. I am not in the perfect form of my life, however I am in good condition. I can take my shirt off on the seashore.”
Mayweather final fought in August 2017 when he accomplished a 50-0 unbeaten file after successful titles at 5 completely different weight courses. His remaining opponent in an expert setting was UFC fighter Conor McGregor, although he fought Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New 12 months’s Eve in 2018.
The 25-year-old fighter Paul has fought twice, as soon as in an exhibition towards fellow YouTube star KSI, earlier than dropping an expert rematch to him in 2019.