2024 has seen a host of boxing spectacles either being completed or announced but one of the few things that has gone quiet is Floyd Mayweather and his exhibition contests. Although, there is one popular U.K. rapper who claims to have agreed to a proposal to take on ‘The Best Ever’.
Since his final professional contest in 2017, Mayweather has taken part in seven exhibitions, six of which were in the last three years. During that time, the now 47-year-old has faced kickboxers, reality television stars and YouTubers and has taken great pleasure in schooling his opponents and controlling ease bout with ease.
However, his most recent showdown against John Gotti III turned sour, as the contest descended into a mass brawl in the ring after the referee waived the encounter off due to excessive trash-talking and abusive language. This event appeared to postpone Mayweather’s plans for a further three exhibitions during 2023, although he claims that he still got paid for them.
In an interview with Sky Sports, Manchester-based rapper Bugzy Malone revealed that he had been in talks with Mayweather and his team for a possible exhibition affair and added that he believes he would have a ‘puncher’s chance’.
“I have had an interesting name thrown at me in Floyd Mayweather. That was being thrown around not so long ago, that I was interested in because I kind of feel like people want to see me box, and the names that are getting thrown around me are just like ‘meh, not sure I would’.
“The minute that Floyd popped up, I was just like ‘do it, let’s just flipping make that happen’ before I even thought about me getting my head punched in or not.
“The thing is, I think that they were talking about me being able to be heavier and I just thought that if you put me in heavier than anyone, I don’t care what the skillset is, I have got a puncher’s chance.
“His team shouted me, I was just saying ‘yeah’.”
Malone – or Aaron Daniel Davies as he is more formally known – took up boxing at the age of 17 and told Sport Bible that he could have gone professional in an interview in 2019, but felt that boxing had served it’s purpose for him just by teaching him discipline.
“I think I needed discipline at the time because I was getting into a little bit of trouble.
“It [going professional] was [an option] at one stage in my life but mainly because my coach believed that I could do so. I’m not sure that it was necessarily an ambition. But when you when you’re in a boxing gym around that atmosphere, around the other professional boxers, it’s only natural. It kind of served its purpose for me in the end.”
For now Malone appears focussed on his music but if opportunity knocks for an exhibition with the pound-for-pound legend, he appears prepared for the challenge and possibly confident of springing a surprise.
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