Floyd Mayweather Jr. is set to continue with his active exhibition tour. The status of the show’s co-feature is not quite as clear, however.
More than five years after his final sanctioned bout, Mayweather showed off a still-chiseled physique as he weighed 154.3 pounds for his third exhibition fight of 2022. The Hall of Fame former five division champion faces Deji, a social media influencer who weighed 175 ¼ pounds for their scheduled eight-round bout atop a DAZN Pay-Per-View event Sunday from Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
In the co-feature, unbeaten prospect Tommy Fury—the younger brother of lineal/WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury—caused trouble at the scales.
Manchester’s Fury (8-0, 4KOs) was well over the light heavyweight limit, weighing a beefy 181 ½ pounds for his scheduled six-round bout with Paul Bamba (5-2, 4KOs), a New York City-based Boricua who weighed 174.6 pounds.