Floyd Mayweather ends retirement again and will return to pro boxing after Tyson exhibition
floyd mayweather has announced he will come out of retirement for a fourth time, staging an exhibition with Mike Tyson this spring and then returning to professional boxing later in the year. The 48-year-old will celebrate his 49th birthday on 24 February.
Floyd Mayweather to return to professional boxing
Mayweather confirmed the pro comeback will follow his planned exhibition with former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. It will be his first professional fight since beating Conor McGregor by 10th‑round technical knockout in 2017 — a victory that secured his 50th professional win and left his record at 50-0 — and ends a nine‑year gap from the paid professional ring.
Exhibition with Mike Tyson precedes the pro comeback
The Tyson event is billed as an exhibition set for this spring, though no date or location has been released for that matchup. Mayweather has said he will move from the Tyson exhibition directly into a professional return, but an opponent for the summer pro fight has not yet been named.
Deal for a summer fight and ongoing legal dispute
A release making the announcement referenced a summer professional bout that is part of an exclusive agreement with CSI Sports/Fight Sports. Mayweather has also been involved in legal action recently: he filed a lawsuit targeting Showtime Networks and the former president of Showtime Sports, alleging a scheme that deprived him of roughly $340 million in earnings.
Mayweather framed the sequence of events that said, "I still have what it takes to set more records in the sport of boxing. " He added, "From my upcoming Mike Tyson event to my next professional fight afterwards - no one will generate a bigger gate, have a larger global broadcast audience and generate more money with each event - than my events. "
Throughout his career Mayweather won titles across five weight classes and headlined the sport’s highest‑grossing shows, including fights with Manny Pacquiao, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Conor McGregor. Since his last professional bout in March 2017 he has taken part in exhibitions; his most recent outing came against John Gotti III in August 2024 in Mexico City, and he also faced Logan Paul in 2021.
The next confirmed landmarks are the spring exhibition with Mike Tyson — the announcement referenced "Spring 2026" — followed by Mayweather’s first professional fight under the CSI Sports/Fight Sports agreement, slated for this summer.
