Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao Agree September Rematch at Sphere in Las Vegas — Live on Netflix
Boxing icons Manny Pacquiao and floyd mayweather have agreed to a professional rematch to be held at the Sphere in Las Vegas on Saturday, 19 September, with the bout to be streamed live on Netflix. The matchup is notable as the first professional boxing match to be staged at the Sphere, and the announcement has revived long-running questions about both fighters' recent activity and the contest's format.
Floyd Mayweather: record, recent activity and the comeback
Mayweather announced he would come out of retirement for a fourth time last week. The context states this will be the American's first professional fight since he beat mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor by a 10th-round technical knockout in 2017. Mayweather's professional record is given as 50-0, with 27 wins by knockout. He has had a string of exhibition bouts since retiring in 2017 and is scheduled to face Mike Tyson this year. In announcing the end of his retirement, Mayweather said he expects his events to generate the biggest gates, larger global broadcast audiences and more money than other events. The context also notes that Mayweather turns 49 on Tuesday.
Manny Pacquiao's status, titles and recent return
Pacquiao is identified as the winner of 12 world titles across eight weight classes and as holding 62 wins from 73 bouts. He retired from the sport in 2021 to focus on his political career but returned to the ring last July to fight WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios, who retained his title after a draw. Pacquiao has been public in seeking a rematch, saying that he and Mayweather once gave the world the biggest fight in boxing history, that the fans have waited long enough, and that he wants Mayweather to live with the one loss on his professional record and remember who gave it to him. The context also states that in October Pacquiao said the pair were close to agreeing a rematch but that it depended on they and Mayweather being able to "understand each other. "
Event specifics: Sphere, date, broadcast and open questions
The match is set for Saturday, 19 September, at the Sphere in Las Vegas and will be streamed live on Netflix. It will be the first professional boxing match staged at the Sphere. It is not yet known over how many rounds the rematch will be contested or at what weight class the fighters will meet; those details remain unspecified in the provided context.
Age and perception: contrasting notes in coverage
The provided material contains two age references: one item lists Pacquiao, 47, and Mayweather, 48, as the fighters who will meet on 19 September; another item states the pair will be 49 and 47 respectively when they fight. Commentary in the context describes the first fight in 2015 as generally seen as a tame affair with both fighters past their peaks and suggests September's bout is likely to be of lower quality. The contrast in age statements and the assessment of likely quality are both included in the available facts and remain unresolved in the context.
History between the fighters and financial stakes
The two first met in 2015 in a contest billed as the 'Fight of the Century' that is described as remaining the richest in boxing history; Mayweather won that encounter a wide unanimous decision in Las Vegas. The new rematch is expected to be lucrative: the context says the pair will earn tens of millions of dollars. Netflix's growing live-sports push is noted, including a previous broadcast of Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson in 2024 that attracted 108 million live global viewers and was described as the most-streamed sporting event in history; Netflix has also shown NFL games on Christmas Day and provided live coverage of climber Alex Honnold scaling a Taipei skyscraper. Those platform-level facts form part of the setting for the rematch.
Undeclared items and next steps
Key operational details remain unclear in the provided context: the number of rounds and the weight class for the rematch have not been specified. The context also includes conflicting age statements for the fighters at fight time and presents differing descriptions of Mayweather's 2017 outing (described as both a professional fight with a 10th-round technical knockout of Conor McGregor and as, elsewhere, a glorified exhibition). Those inconsistencies and the missing fight-format details mean some items may evolve as promoters and the fighters confirm final terms.
