{"id":302140,"date":"2025-07-29T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302140\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:47:09","slug":"mike-tyson-says-floyd-mayweather-should-fight-unbeaten-world-champion-instead-of-manny-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302140\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Says Floyd Mayweather Should Fight Unbeaten World Champion Instead Of Manny Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson<\/a> has revealed the fighter that he believes Floyd Mayweather<\/a> should make a return against.<\/p>\n

Mayweather has not fought as a professional since he defeated MMA fighter Conor McGregor in their monumental cross-over showdown back in August of 2017.<\/p>\n

At the peak of his powers, the Michigan native was one of, if not the best fighter on the planet. He won world titles across five weight divisions throughout the course of his 21-year professional career, which spanned between 1996 and 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n

He racked up victories over a number of generational greats during his tenure, including the likes of Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a> to name just a few.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Big Podcast with Shaq<\/a>, heavyweight legend Tyson hinted that Mayweather could make a return to boxing as he claims the 48-year-old shouldn\u2019t rematch Manny Pacquiao but instead look at a potential clash with Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf he wants to make some money\u2026 he could fight the wonder guy, not Manny Pacquiao, Manny won\u2019t fight him again, but I\u2019m talking about [Terence] Crawford \u2026 if you want money, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford is often regarded as being one of, if not the greatest fighter of his entire generation. The unbeaten 37-year-old from Omaha has already won world titles in four weight classes, as well as the undisputed championship at super-lightweight and welterweight.<\/p>\n

The American superstar is less than two months away from his highly-anticipated showdown with Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, as he sets his sights on becoming boxing\u2019s first ever three-weight undisputed champion at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson has revealed the fighter that he believes Floyd Mayweather should make a return against. Mayweather has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114938487958204519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}