Floyd Mayweather has deleted all his Instagram posts referencing the Tenshin Nasukawa fight after claiming he never agreed to it in the first place
Floyd Mayweather issued a statement saying he never agreed to fight Tenshin Nasukawa, then deleted Instagram posts that previously hyped the fight up.
Floyd Mayweather scrambled to delete all of his references to a Rizin 14 bout against Tenshin Nasukawa after issuing as statement saying he never agreed to the fight in the first place.
Mayweather has teased comeback fights against his former opponent Manny Pacquio and the UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in recent weeks.
But the American went one step further with Rizin and Nasukawa by posting an image of him wearing Rizin mixed martial arts gloves on Instagram. He attended a media event in Japan to confirm the event, which was due to take place on December 31, praised his supposed opponent, and said he would be giving "the people something they've never seen before."
But the fight, Mayweather now claims, is void. He has called it off. In an Instagram statement on Wednesday, after he had left Japan and flown back to the US, Mayweather claimed he had been duped and that the fight was meant to be an exhibition for "a small group of wealthy spectators."
The press conference, he said, caught him off-guard. "I was completely blindsided," he wrote.
Mayweather then deleted all references he had made to the fight, including the image of him in Rizin gloves.
The 20-year-old he was set to face, Nasukawa, also posted details of the fight on his Instagram.
Here is what appears to be the fight poster for the December 31 show:
#emo##emo##emo##emo##emo##e... @ tenshin.nasukawa
This post details a price-point for tickets at the Saitama Super Arena (approximately $130):
#emo##emo##emo##emo##emo##e... @ tenshin.nasukawa
There was even a promo photoshoot:
I#emo#ll absolutely win. C... @ tenshin.nasukawa
But none of these details exist on Mayweather's Instagram any more — all that is left is his statement claiming no fight exists, photographs of his latest property purchase, and evidence of his rivalry with his former opponent Oscar de la Hoya whom he calls a "b----" and a "h--."
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