Floyd Mayweather Jr. And Manny Pacquiao Announce Rematch More Than Decade After 'fight Of The Century'

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao made boxing history successful 2015.

More than a decade later, nan 2 boxing legends are hoping to do it again.

The 2 will conflict successful a master rematch Sept. 19. The event, which will beryllium streamed unrecorded connected Netflix, will beryllium nan first boxing lucifer to beryllium held astatine nan Las Vegas Sphere.

The first clip around, Mayweather defeated Pacquiao by unanimous decision connected May 2, 2015, successful nan alleged “Fight of nan Century” astatine nan MGM Grand Garden Arena successful Las Vegas.

“I already fought and hit Manny once,” Mayweather said successful a connection released by Netflix. “This clip will beryllium nan aforesaid result.”

That conflict generated 4.6 cardinal pay-per-view buys and a unrecorded gross of $72 million, some of which are still records.

It was a long-awaited matchup betwixt 2 of nan biggest names successful nan boxing world — 38-year-old Mayweather (47-0, 26 KO) and 36-year-old Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KO) — that yet earned Mayweather nan World Boxing Council, World Boxing Assn. and World Boxing Organization welterweight titles.

The backdrop to this year’s bout is simply a spot different. Mayweather is now 50-0 (27 KO) and will beryllium 49 connected Tuesday. He has retired and unretired aggregate times but has not fought successful a bout that counts since his 10-round method knockout of Conor McGregor successful 2017.

Although he still has an accumulation conflict against Mike Tyson coming up connected a still-unannounced day this spring, Mayweather announced past week that he is resuming his master fighting career.

Pacquiao, 47, is 62-9-2 (39 KO). In July, he mislaid by mostly draw to WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios successful an effort to break his ain grounds for oldest welterweight champion. He was 40 erstwhile he defeated Keith Thurman for nan title successful 2019.

Pacquiao precocious announced a a 10-round welterweight accumulation against erstwhile inferior welterweight world champion Ruslan Provodnikov connected April 18 astatine nan Thomas & Mack Center successful Las Vegas.

“Floyd and I gave nan world what remains nan biggest conflict successful boxing history,” Pacquiao said successful a connection released by Netflix. “The fans person waited agelong capable — they merit this rematch, and it will beryllium moreover bigger now that it will beryllium streamed unrecorded globally connected Netflix. I want Floyd to unrecorded pinch nan 1 nonaccomplishment connected his master grounds and ever retrieve who gave it to him.”