Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will meet again in a professional boxing rematch this September. The fight will take place at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Fans around the world will be able to watch it live on Netflix. The fighters and promoters confirmed the news on Monday.
The bout will mark Mayweather’s return to professional boxing after retirement. It will also be the first professional boxing match ever held at the Sphere.
Mayweather has a perfect record of 50 wins with 27 knockouts. He beat Pacquiao when they met in 2015 in the famous Fight of the Century. That event set records with 4.6 million pay per view buys and a live gate of 72 million dollars at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Mayweather sounded confident before the rematch. He said, “I already fought and beat Manny once. This time will be the same result.”
Pacquiao also backed himself to win. The Filipino star has a record of 62 wins, 8 losses and 3 draws with 39 knockouts. He said, “I want Floyd to live with the one loss on his professional record and always remember who gave it to him.”
The fight will be shown to Netflix’s more than 325 million subscribers across the world. The company has been moving into live boxing in recent times. It also streamed big fights like Jake Paul against Mike Tyson, which Netflix said drew 108 million live viewers worldwide.
