Floyd Mayweather may be retired, but he’s definitely staying busy after booking another exhibition bout.
The 45-year old former multi-division champion boxer will be back on September 25 in Japan to face Mikuru Asakura.
This will mark Mayweather’s second appearance at the Japanese-based promotion. He previously fought in 2018 and defeated Tenshin Naukawa in just the first round.
Following that performance, Mayweather then engaged in a lucrative eight-round exhibition against social influencer turned boxing enthusiast Logan Paul as part of a Showtime pay-per-view that ended up as one of the biggest events in 2021.
Now Mayweather will face Asakura, who comes into the exhibition bout with a 16-3 record with one no-contest in his mixed martial arts career. It will be Asakura’s first boxing bout as he faces off with Mayweather, who is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished pugilists in the history of the sport.
There will be an exhibition fight between Mayweather and Kyoji Horiguchi, the ex-Bellator bantamweight champion. He will also return to promotion to face Yuto “Kintaro” Hokamura.
Horiguchi will look to get back in the win column after he suffered back-to-back losses to Sergio Pettis and Patchy Mix in Bellator.
This is the RIZIN 38 card in Japan :
Hiromasa Ogikubo vs. Kim Soo-chul
Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Yuto ‘Kintaro’ Hokamura
Kyohei Hagiwara vs. Chihiro Suzuki
Juri Ohara vs. Luiz Gustavo
Shoma Schibisai vs. Cally gibrainn de Oliveira
Super RIZIN
Floyd Mayweather and Mikuru Asakura boxing exhibition )
Yoshinari Nadaka vs. So Trakunpet Bandasak (kickboxing bout)
