Mayweather: Last fight will be in September 2015 | Inquirer Sports

Mayweather: Last fight will be in September 2015

/ 09:51 AM January 18, 2014

In this photo taken Saturday, September 14, 2013, Floyd Mayweather Jr. gets tangled up with Canelo Alvarez during a world light middleweight title fight in Las Vegas. AP

JOHANNESBURG – Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’ll fight for the last time in September next year.

Mayweather told guests at a gala dinner in South Africa on Friday that he remembers his first fight when he was a kid in 1987, and that ”September 2015 will be my last.”

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The unbeaten five-division world champion, considered by many the best boxer of his era, said after beating Canelo Alvarez in a dominating display last September that he had four fights and two years left in his career.

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Mayweather’s next bout will be in May against an undecided opponent, having said this week that British fighter Amir Khan and Argentine Marcos Maidana are the leading contenders.

Mayweather has a 45-0 record with 26 knockouts and made his pro debut in 1996.

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