Mayweather expects $50MM

Floyd Mayweather expects $50mm for a fight that isn’t real for him

“I’m going to be fighting a youtuber who thinks he’s a fighter and I’m going to charge a lot for it,” said multi-champion Floyd Mayweather ahead of the exhibition he will have this Sunday in Miami against the also American Logan Paul, for which he expects to pocket around 50 million dollars and also, he does not consider a real fight.

Mayweather confessed in a talk with Showtime, in the media day prior to his return to the ring, that he does not know the work of the brothers Logan and Jake Paul, he asserted that nothing can reproach him for starring in this kind of events because as a boxer he faced and defeated everyone, and stressed that, in addition, he retired from boxing, but not from the entertainment business.

“For me, boxing was the mash and this (the exhibitions) are the gravy sauce,” Floyd said in the interview with Showtime, the network that will distribute his show on pay-per-view in the United States. In Latin America it will be available on ESPN KNOCKOUT. “I retired from boxing, but not from entertainment or making money,” he added.

Floyd, former champion in five different categories and for many the best boxer of the last 25 years, said he was ready to have fun doing what he does best. “I’ve been training, but not every day. I’m going to be fighting a youtuber who thinks he’s a fighter and I’m going to charge a lot for it. If I make 50 million (dollars), that’s not bad for someone who is retired,” he noted.

‘Money’ ruled out that this date in the ring represents a risk. “This is not a real fight for me, it will be for him,” decreed Floyd, who retired undefeated as a professional with a 50-0 record and assured that this type of acts should not affect what he achieved as a boxer in the pay-per-view, because he never turned anyone around.

Mayweather had an intense one-on-one with Logan Paul, who has a record of one loss as a professional boxer, and really shouldn’t stand a chance, although he has gotten away with it and will surely take a significant amount of money for stepping into the ring with an extraordinary counterpuncher.