Controversy never seems to be far away from Floyd Mayweather and now his next proposed fight has been thrown into doubt after a press conference descended into chaos.
Mayweather has been officially retired from the boxing ring for a number of years. He ended his career at 50-0 with an easy night’s work against MMA star Conor McGregor in his boxing debut, and before that he saw off Andre Berto, Manny Pacquiao, Marcos Maidana and Miguel Cotto in his last six fights alone.
Mayweather’s record is astonishing and includes facts such as 13 wins and no losses against former or then-current lineal titlists, he was 24-0 against then-current or former world title holders, and beat previously undefeated opponents in Diego Corrales, Ricky Hatton and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.
Since that last fight in 2017, he has continually been linked with big rematches with the likes of Pacquiao and McGregor and has had a couple of high-profile exhibition bouts.
He is also often embroiled in social media spats such as most recently with his former charge Gervonta Davis, while he was also seen hanging out with Ryan Garcia before his fight with Devin Haney, who once fought out of Mayweather’s gym. Garcia even claimed it was ‘Money Mayweather’ who told him to come in overweight for his recent world title contest with Haney.
Mayweather’s next exhibition was said to be against Victor Ortiz on August 24 at Plaza de Toros Mexico in Mexico City, which is the largest bullring in the world and holds over 41,000 spectators.
Mayweather and Ortiz first fought back in September 2011 when Mayweather won via fourth-round knockout.
It was a controversial fight that saw Mayweather land a sucker punch on Ortiz after they had been separated by the referee and Ortiz went to hug Mayweather as a way of apologising for an illegal headbutt.
However a new post on X from Salvador Rodriguez says it may all be off.
“Mayweather exhibition in Mexico 🇲🇽 :
-Did not come to conference
-Deleted poster from his Instagram
-VÃctor Ortiz went, but they did not introduce him… which asks a lot 💵
-They did not reveal a rival
-CDMX Government CANCELED training this Thursday”
This would not be the first time Mayweather has changed his plans last minute.
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