Both Fury and Ngannou have stated that they plan on fighting each other next year in what would be the two top heavyweights in boxing and the UFC going head-to-head.
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Their exhibition-boxing match, expected to be finalised over the next few days, is scheduled to take place on the famed helipad at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel, featuring a limited number of fight fans and local gawkers.
McGregor announced he is retiring from MMA for the third time in four years on Sunday, despite making his long-awaited comeback just in January.
Floyd Mayweather knocked out an over-confident heavyweight during a sparring session, according to a former training partner.
Floyd Mayweather’s teenage daughter faces up to 99 years in jail after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend’s baby mama twice in a bloody row.
Floyd Mayweather’s ex-girlfriend and mother of his three children, Josie Harris, has been found dead in her car by police in California.
Khabib Nurmagomedov has revealed that he has been offered a lucrative amount of money to fight Floyd Mayweather in Saudi Arabia.
The American defeated the MMA fighter in a 10th-round knockout in 2017.
Pacquiao beat Keith Thurman via a split decision in Las Vegas over the weekend to become the new WBA super welterweight champion and his former opponent was in the crowd
The charge is about payments they received for promoting investments in initial coin offerings.
The fight, aptly dubbed: “The Money Fight,” was billed to be the biggest fight in combat sports history. Highly sensationalized, it pulled up staggering statistics from viewership numbers to winnings for both fighters and promoters. The anticipated fight took place on August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena, Nevada. The night ended with Mayweather stopping McGregor in the 10th round and hitting a 50-0 unbeaten boxing record.
The UFC lightweight champion insisted that referee Robert Byrd was wrong to bring the contest to a close in round 10 and hand victory to the undefeated boxer.
A potential fight between undefeated former five-weight world champion Mayweather and McGregor – the UFC’s only ever simultaneous two-division champion – has become the most discussed topic in combat sports, but up until now has amounted to little more than speculation
Alongside the snap taken at a sun-soaked airfield the 49-0 fighter wrote on Instagram: “#AirMayweather 1 & #AirMayweather 2 parked back to back.”
The 39-year-old, who reportedly made more than £160 million for his fight against Manny Pacquiao in May 2015, is more famous for his fleet of cars
“I am just months away from opening up my very own strip club in Las Vegas, Nevada called @GirlCollection,” he posted on his Instagram page.
Mayweather is worth an estimated $650 million
The 39-year-old, who walked away from boxing with a perfect 49-0 record after out-pointing Andre Berto eight months ago, was ringside as a promoter of Badou Jack’s WBC super-middleweight world title fight with Lucian Bute in Washington DC
The World Boxing Council already removed Mayweather from their rankings and also stripped him of the welterweight and super welterweight belts at the end of 2015
“I can’t believe they [Ring Magazine] got Andre Ward ranked number 4 in the pound-for-pound list. Even though the guy that’s ranked number 1 pound-for-pound right now [Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez], you know, you can’t argue about that, but without Andre Ward losing a fight, he has to be number 2. I mean, he wins his fights not in good fashion, but in great fashion, and they have him at number 4?
Though the scheduled 12-round bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena has failed to capture the public’s imagination with heavy underdog Berto having lost three of his last six contests, but Mayweather insisted that entertainment would be a priority on the night.
The concern, among anti-doping watchdogs, is IVs can dilute or mask the presence of other substances.