The heaviest Mayweather weighed for a boxing match was 151 pounds for his super welterweight title fight against Miguel Cotto in 2012. Paul will be allowed to weigh as much as 190 pounds. Each can win only by knockout, technical knockout or disqualification.Īnother feature is the floating weight limit. Mayweather and Paul are to box eight, three-minute rounds. TV and other viewing options will require a $50 price tag. The Mayweather-Paul marquee is supported by additional bouts involving former world champions. The enviable pay-per-view stripes Mayweather earned during his unblemished 50-fight career and Paul’s reported 29 million followers on his social media platform helped move the event to a football stadium. We’re going to go out there have fun Sunday and give the people what they want to see.” “I look at it, for one night, I’ll be entertaining the people. “I don’t look at is as a fight I think my opponent looks at it as a fight,” Mayweather said during a media gathering Thursday in Miami Beach. He will face YouTube personality Logan Paul in an exhibition at Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins. Consequently, at age 44, he returns to the ring under conditions that will not recall any of his great exploits in the ring.
