It feels like few fighters have spent as much of their retirement years taking fights as Floyd Mayweather. The multi-time, multi-division boxing champion more or less ended his time as a high-level professional athlete back in 2015, with a unanimous decision over Andre Berto to retain his undisputed welterweight titles. One last bout, to take his record to a sparkling 50-0 in 2017—against UFC superstar Conor McGregor—and the then-40-year-old officially hung up his gloves.
So what’s he been doing in the half-decade since he decided to stop boxing? More boxing, obviously.
Mayweather took his first exhibition bout back in 2018, a much derided shellacking of kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa.