Amid the strange – and ongoing – saga of Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition fight against Tenshin Nasukawa at RIZIN.14 on New Year’s Eve in Japan, it appears that ‘Money’ is looking to create a little clarity. The semi-retired boxing great sent a shockwave through combat sports with the initial announcement that he’d be competing in a ‘special rules’ bout in Japan. Without any further information of what those rules might be, it seemed an entirely out-of-the-blue step for Mayweather.
The fight was quickly cancelled, for reasons still somewhat unclear – a cryptic Instagram from Mayweather about “worldwide” broadcast, and fighting for a select group of “wealthy spectators” has since been deleted.