00:0049-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr. and 47-year-old Manny Pacquiao are running it back.
00:05Yes, professionally.
00:07So yes, this somehow counts as the biggest story in boxing.
00:12It shouldn't be a huge surprise.
00:14The announcement landed just days after Mayweather teased another comeback
00:17following his upcoming 2026 exhibition with the 58-year-old Mike Tyson
00:21alongside a new multi-fight deal with CSI Sports.
00:28I already fought and beat Manny once, Mayweather proclaimed.
00:32This time will be the same result.
00:34So why are we doing this again?
00:37Mayweather officially retired in 2017 at the age of 40
00:41after stopping Conor McGregor to finish his professional boxing career
00:44with a perfect 50-0 record.
00:47Since then, he's stayed busy competing in exhibitions
00:49with anyone from undersized kickboxers to YouTuber millionaires
00:54to mob-adjacent monstrosities like John Gotti III.
00:58Seriously, it's all been for the money
01:01because it certainly did nothing for anyone's dignity.
01:07Pacquiao originally retired after losing to your Denis Ugas in 2021
01:11before returning in 2025 to take the WBC champion Mario Barrios
01:16to a majority draw.
01:19With a record of 62-8-3, he's now chasing history
01:23by becoming the first man to tarnish Mayweather's unblemished record.
01:28Before that, though, he faces Ruslan Provotnikov, 42,
01:32in an April exhibition bout in Las Vegas.
01:37I want Floyd to live with the one loss on his professional record
01:41and always remember who gave it to him, Pacquiao said in his statement.
01:44The fans have waited long enough.
01:46They deserve this rematch.
01:48But what do the fans do to deserve this?
01:51The first time the two met was back in May of 2015
01:54when Mayweather outpointed Pacquiao in a mega fight
01:57that famously failed to deliver.
01:59It was a tactical snoozefest that was five years too late
02:03and evolved a diminished Pacquiao nursing a shoulder injury
02:06that required immediate surgery.
02:08But Mayweather Pacquiao won made absurd amounts of money.
02:13The bout pulled in 4.6 million pay-per-view buys in the US alone,
02:18generated over $410 million
02:21and smashed gate records with $72.2 million.
02:27While the UFC held an event at the $2.3 billion sphere in 2024,
02:32this will be its first boxing headliner
02:34and it's almost guaranteed to be an even bigger spectacle.
02:38Due to the fight landing on Netflix,
02:40there will be no pay-per-view numbers at all,
02:42but there will be 325 million subscribers
02:45who could tune in this September 19th
02:47or they could watch just about anything else.
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