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Mayweather, Pacquiao Rematch Delayed Amid Dispute
A proposed rematch between boxing greats Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has been postponed indefinitely, Pacquiao’s camp in the Philippines announced on Friday. According to a report by AFP, The announcement came after ESPN reported that Mayweather’s scheduled exhibition bout in Greece had been cancelled following a legal injunction sought……
A proposed rematch between boxing greats Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has been postponed indefinitely, Pacquiao’s camp in the Philippines announced on Friday.
According to a report by AFP, The announcement came after ESPN reported that Mayweather’s scheduled exhibition bout in Greece had been cancelled following a legal injunction sought by an events company linked to the planned Pacquiao rematch.
The former world champions, whose blockbuster 2015 fight generated 4.6 million pay-per-view purchases, have been embroiled in a dispute over the nature of the proposed September showdown. The disagreement intensified after Mayweather announced that the bout, which had been unveiled by Netflix, would only be an exhibition, a claim Pacquiao has strongly rejected.
On Friday, the Pacquiao camp released a statement blaming the postponement on “a volatile mix of federal lawsuits, scheduling overbooks, and financial gridlock completely surrounding the Mayweather camp”.
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Events company CSI sued Mayweather last week seeking to recover at least $4.65 million the company says it paid the fighter for exclusive rights to promote the Pacquiao rematch and an exhibition bout with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson that failed to materialise.
Friday’s statement said the earliest a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight could now take place would be early 2027.
“Should Mayweather and CSI settle their internal contract disputes out of court, promoters will immediately pivot to rescheduling a postponed exhibition between Mayweather and Mike Tyson, tentatively targeting September 12,” the Pacquiao team statement said.
Mayweather, 49, retired from boxing in 2017 with a perfect 50-0 record.
He was to have fought an exhibition against Greek kickboxing star Mike Zambidis on Saturday in a pay-per-view event to be held at the Telekon Center at the OAKA Olympic Complex in Athens.
The now-shelved Pacquiao bout would have rematched the fighters in the top money-spinner in boxing history.
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