Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather made 20-year-old kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa cry with a first-round knockout in an exhibition fight after turning up hours late for a lucrative $9m New Year’s Eve bout in Japan.
Mayweather did not need to take the fight seriously. Mayweather had flown to Tokyo after being offered $ 9 million by Japanese MMA promotion RIZIN for a three-round exhibition against the 20-year-old rising star.
Their idea was to have the unbeaten prospect massively develop his global profile by sharing the ring with one of the most recognizable faces on the planet.
It didn’t quite go as planned.
The announcement came completely out of the blue on a Monday morning in November, with the rest of the boxing world stunned as they woke up to the news.
Details slowly trickled out as it emerged that Mayweather, whose previous bout against Conor McGregor was fought at 154lbs, would be facing a featherweight in Nasukawa who’d last competed at 128lbs.
However, just two days later there was a problem.
After flying home from the announcement press conference in Japan, Mayweather put out an Instagram post declaring the contest was canceled.
He claimed to have been completely blindsided by organizers who agreed on a low-profile exhibition but then announced a massive event in an arena filled with thousands of people.
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