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Undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will make his return to combat action, fighting at Japan’s RIZIN FF 14 event. As reported by Dan Rafael and Ariel Helwani, Mayweather will challenge undefeated kickboxing sensation Tenshin Nakusawa at the Super Saitama Arena at New Year’s Eve:
RIZIN FF just announced that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight undefeated sensation Tenshin Nasukawa on 12/31 at the Saitama Super Arena. The press conference is live right now: https://t.co/NgAahdtrwT
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) November 5, 2018
The rules for the special fight is still under deliberation as Mayweather, a boxer, is facing the kickboxer Nasukawa and it will be his first time in a mixed martial arts environment. This is will also be Mayweather’s first fight in well over a year, where he defeated Conor McGregor in a highly-publicized boxing bout in August 2017.
Mayweather would post on his Instagram hyping up the fight for Dec. 31:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyCaoFhH0q/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_loading_state_camera