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by David P. Greisman
Guess who’s back. Back again. Money’s back. Tell a friend. Guess who’s back. Guess who’s back. Guess who’s back.
Nobody expected Floyd Mayweather Jr. to stay retired for long – probably not even Mayweather himself.
It’s not yet official, though it might as well be.
Mayweather wants to fight again, and he wants to do so soon. Sources have told multiple boxing writers that Mayweather is looking at July 11 for his first fight back.
If it’s true, that would mean Mayweather will have opted out of this latest retirement before its first year had passed. That said, this retirement has already lasted longer than the rest, though it’s been yet another episode of Floyd Mayweather’s “Believe It or Not.”
“Here we go again,” Mayweather said Nov. 4, 2006, speaking to press following his defeat of then-welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir. Mayweather wasn’t referring to what would become his penchant for retiring, though the sentence seems prescient in hindsight.
“I’m five-time world champion, four different weight classes,” Mayweather said after adding the 147-pound lineage to his world titles at 140, 135 and 130. “I’m going to keep moving on and keep beating the people they put in front of me. They say ‘Oscar De La Hoya.’ That’s the name.” [details]
Guess who’s back. Back again. Money’s back. Tell a friend. Guess who’s back. Guess who’s back. Guess who’s back.
Nobody expected Floyd Mayweather Jr. to stay retired for long – probably not even Mayweather himself.
It’s not yet official, though it might as well be.
Mayweather wants to fight again, and he wants to do so soon. Sources have told multiple boxing writers that Mayweather is looking at July 11 for his first fight back.
If it’s true, that would mean Mayweather will have opted out of this latest retirement before its first year had passed. That said, this retirement has already lasted longer than the rest, though it’s been yet another episode of Floyd Mayweather’s “Believe It or Not.”
“Here we go again,” Mayweather said Nov. 4, 2006, speaking to press following his defeat of then-welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir. Mayweather wasn’t referring to what would become his penchant for retiring, though the sentence seems prescient in hindsight.
“I’m five-time world champion, four different weight classes,” Mayweather said after adding the 147-pound lineage to his world titles at 140, 135 and 130. “I’m going to keep moving on and keep beating the people they put in front of me. They say ‘Oscar De La Hoya.’ That’s the name.” [details]
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