Former mankind paladin pugilist Floyd Mayweather Jr declared himself ready to toy with Japanese fighting fans, and he’s ready to show it on Sunday. He’ll human face Mikuru Asakura at the Saitama Super Arena inward Saitama, but what everyone really wants to experience is if he’s going to hold a rematch against Connor McGregor.
Mayweather Jr arrived inwards Japanese Islands this hebdomad and gave a press out conference to verbalize around the duel with Asakura after his arrival. This is his modish exhibition match, which testament follow available on pay-per-view.
Japanese MMA company RIZIN Fighting Federation is putting on the show, bringing Mayweather dorsum to the peal one time again. He retired from fisticuffs undefeated and has lay inwards some exhibitions since then, but fans stock-still love to assure him inwards the ring.
All For Show
Asakura is a two-time mixed martial arts champion with 16 wins and threesome losses. The 30-year-old began his MMA career competing as an recreational under the Fighting Network Rings banner. Working under the promotion’s The Outsider brand, he turned professional person inward 2012 followers an recreational book of 6-1.
Competing for The Outsider, DEEP John Cage Impact and Road FC, Asakura won the RINGS 70 and 65 kg Championships in 2015. He and then made his RIZIN debut in 2018 and is 10-2 with the company. After winning VII bouts inward a row, Asakura faced Yutaka Saito for the RIZIN featherweight title of respect inward 2020, but missed via unanimous decision.
Mayweather, improve known as Money, competed in his world-class exposition fight down in December 2018. That was against kickboxing principal Tenshin Nasukawa, after which he found his unexampled niche. It didn’t bruise that he made $9 jillion simply for showing up.
Since then, he has appeared inwards a duad to a greater extent exhibition fights. Now, Mayweather testament live looking to make the same thing he did to Nasukawa, although he is to a greater extent than upwardly for the challenge.
Money hasn’t assign on the gloves in an prescribed couple since 2017. However, he’s still considered the topper pound-for-pound fighter. He was prizewinning of boxing’s super featherweight, lightweight, calorie-free welterweight, welterweight and illuminate middleweight categories.
While to the highest degree magdon’t make lines upwards for the expo match, it’s possible to bump some seaward books ready for some action. With or without money on the fight, this is going to follow a tally worth watching.
Where’s McGregor?
While the considered single of the topper inwards account is getting ready to face Asakura, in that respect are also rumors of a possible fighting with McGregor, which Mayweather believes is going to happen. If it does, though, he only wants an expo match.
Mayweather and McGregor were the protagonists of unity of the most watched events of the lastly decade. Promoters managed to get the topper pugilist of the second to friction gloves with the topper of the UFC. Five years hold passed since that demo inward Las Vegas, where the Irishman missed inwards the tenth round of drinks past TKO.
Although the fight down betwixt Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor was not brilliant, it is remembered past fans due to the sheer magnitude of the event. Both the American pugilist and the Irish Gaelic attack aircraft received Brobdingnagian payouts – Mayweather reportedly received over $100 trillion and McGregor, $30 million.
Mayweather was the odds-on favourite to win, getting around -1000 at to the highest degree books. However, for him to capture rearward inwards the tintinnabulation against McGregor, it would have got to follow an expo match. That’s his condition, and not many people would live willing to argue with him.
He reportedly confirmed that the fight back is sledding to make place, but that may non follow true. Shortly after making his announcement, McGregor left a post on Instagram that contained only when a tag – #notinterested.
That way the oppose may noneffervescent live inward doubt. Sportsbooks had already begun to proffer lines, with Mickey Power gift Mayweather -700. With everything up inward the air, bettors will feature to square up for wagering on whether the oppose testament take place.