Mayweather Lays Out His Comeback: Tyson First, Then $110M Pacquiao Rematch

Floyd Mayweather has a sequence in mind, and he's finally said it out loud. Speaking on The PBD Podcast, the 49-year-old laid out a two-fight plan: a December exhibition against Mike Tyson, then a long-delayed professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao sometime in 2027. The number attached to the Pacquiao fight is the headline — Mayweather says he's guaranteed $110 million for it.

This is a man who walked away 50-0 after stopping Conor McGregor in 2017, then spent years cashing exhibition checks. The pro comeback was first floated in February, when a Pacquiao rematch was announced eleven years on from their 2015 pay-per-view record-breaker. Then came the postponement, and the widespread assumption that it was dead for good.

Why It Fell Apart

Mayweather's explanation centers on money, which tracks. He points to a Netflix deal that, by his telling, tried to pay him and Pacquiao the same figure — around $27.5 million each. He didn't take kindly to that. In the first fight, he was guaranteed $101 million to Pacquiao's $25 million, and he isn't about to accept parity with the man he already beat. His message to the promoters was blunt: get the numbers right, then come back.

He also floated a more colorful detail, blaming the collapse partly on a figure he described as someone caught up in defrauding multiple people — the same person, he claims, behind a missing $200 million. Take that for what it's worth. What matters for fans is that Mayweather insists the Pacquiao fight has been discussed and that he expects it to happen.

What Pacquiao Does Next

The complication is that Pacquiao may not sit around waiting on renegotiated terms. He's been heavily linked to a professional return on the Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua card, though nothing's officially locked. Fury, ranked #3 at heavyweight with a 36-2-1 record, and Joshua, 29-4 with 26 knockouts and coming off a sixth-round stoppage of Jake Paul, would give PacMan a massive stage without Mayweather attached.

So the order of operations is set, at least in Floyd's head. Tyson in December, Pacquiao in 2027, $110 million on the line. Whether the rest of the sport cooperates is the open question — but Mayweather has rarely let a stalled negotiation stop him from eventually getting his price.