Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Set Sept. 19 Netflix Rematch at Las Vegas Sphere
manny pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will run it back in a sanctioned professional fight on Sept. 19 in Las Vegas, with the event to be streamed live globally on Netflix. The pairing reunites two Hall of Famers and former multi-weight world champions for the first professional boxing event at the city’s Sphere venue.
Las Vegas Sphere to host first professional boxing match
The rematch is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 19 at the Las Vegas Sphere and will be presented as a live global stream on Netflix. Ring Magazine first broke the news Monday. Promoters are framing the event as the inaugural professional boxing match inside the Sphere, marking a venue milestone as much as a marquee sporting reunion.
Manny Pacquiao’s April exhibition and recent ring activity
Manny Pacquiao, 47, is set to take part in an exhibition bout on April 18 against Ruslan Provodnikov before the September rematch. Context around Pacquiao’s recent fights is detailed: he returned to the ring after a four-year retirement last year, has fought eight times since his 2015 defeat to Mayweather, and most recently faced former WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios in July 2025, a contest that ended in a majority draw with Barrios retaining his title. Another account notes Pacquiao as being seven months removed from the controversial Barrios draw and that some observers believed the outcome should have made Pacquiao the second-oldest world champion in boxing history.
Floyd Mayweather’s return, exhibitions and legal actions
Floyd Mayweather Jr., 48, has announced a return to professional boxing this year, meaning his unbeaten professional record will be on the line in the rematch. Mayweather has staged a series of exhibitions since stepping away from prizefighting, and he is slated for a spring exhibition against Mike Tyson; one announcement placed that exhibition on April 25 while other statements left the exact Tyson date unconfirmed. Mayweather retired from professional prize fighting in 2017 with a 50-0 record and 27 knockouts, and his last professional fight before retirement came in March 2017 when he beat Conor McGregor by technical knockout. This month Mayweather also filed a lawsuit against Showtime Networks and the former president of Showtime Sports, alleging an extended fraud scheme that denied him roughly $340 million in earnings—an element that has been cited as part of the financial rationale for his renewed activity.
Legacy of the 2015 bout: numbers, outcome and criticism
The pair’s first bout in May 2015 was billed as the “Fight of the Century. ” Mayweather won that contest by unanimous decision after 12 rounds, using defensive tactics to secure victory and to unify three welterweight belts. The 2015 event set commercial records: it sold 4. 6 million pay-per-view buys, generated a live gate of $72 million in ticket sales, and yielded U. S. pay-per-view revenue reported at $410 million, making it the highest-grossing PPV in history at the time. Despite the commercial success, many viewers and commentators labelled the in-ring product underwhelming; Pacquiao later said he had fought with a shoulder injury.
Stakes, records and the broader implication
Mayweather returns with a professional record that, if intact, had stood at 50-0, while Pacquiao’s career record is listed at 62-8-3 with 39 knockout victories. The rematch carries competitive and commercial stakes: it is a sanctioned professional bout that places Mayweather’s unbeaten mark on the line and offers Pacquiao an opportunity to reverse a previous unanimous decision loss. The timing matters because both men are in their late 40s, have maintained public profiles through exhibitions and political activity—Pacquiao ran for President of the Philippines in 2022—and because recent legal and business developments have added clear financial motivations for Mayweather’s return. Observers point to money as a driving factor in the matchup, but the dream rematch also reopens long-standing narratives about legacy after the mixed reception of the original 2015 fight.
What makes this notable is the combination of commercial scale and novelty: a historic, pay-per-view–record–setting rivalry will be streamed globally on a single platform and staged inside a brand-new, high-profile arena for professional boxing. The path to Sept. 19 includes two spring exhibitions—Pacquiao vs. Provodnikov on April 18 and Mayweather’s scheduled Tyson exhibition—and a rematch that will again place legacy, records and money at the center of the sport’s biggest headline.
