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Floyd Mayweather says he’s making $9M for Tenshin Nasukawa exhibition at Rizin 14

Is it possible to make $1 million per minute? Floyd Mayweather says he’ll do just that this weekend.

Mayweather, the boxing legend, insinuated Sunday on Instagram that he’ll be making $9 million to face 20-year-old kickboxing prodigy Tenshin Nasukawa in a boxing exhibition match at Rizin 14 at Saitama Super Arena in Japan on Monday. The contest will be three rounds of three minutes apiece.

“What if I told you I was making $9,000,000 for 9 minutes of sparring in Tokyo Japan would you do the same if you were me?” Mayweather wrote. “I like to call it a 9 minute walk thru.