Floyd Mayweather Jr will fight Robert Guerrero, but he says good bye to HBO and Hello to a Showtime Deal
Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. made two announcements on Tuesday, one expected and another rather surprising one that will change the landscape of the boxing business.
The expected: Mayweather will return to the ring on May 4 — one day short of a year since his last fight — to defend his welterweight world title against interim titlist Robert Guerrero at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Mayweather will be fighting for the seventh consecutive time.
Since Mayweather first announced in December that he would fight on May 4, Guerrero was the leading candidate to get the fight.
The unexpected element of Mayweather’s announcement: He is leaving HBO/Time Warner, his television home for virtually his entire career, to move to rival Showtime/CBS for the pay-per-view fight.More info.
