Pound for pound king, Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring on September 13 according to Dan Rafael of espn.com.
“Floyd will go on Sept. 13 and we looking at who he’s going to fight and where he is going to fight,” said Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe. “Obviously, Las Vegas is his home and the MGM Grand is always the leading candidate but we will take a look at our other options.”
“[Barclays Center chief executive] Brett [Yormark] and those guys at the Barclays Center made a tremendous offer for the Maidana fight and I’m sure they’ll be looking to be in the Floyd Mayweather business again come September, but the MGM is Floyd’s home and they are always the leading candidate,” Ellerbe said.
“We’re looking at opponents now,” he said. “In the next two weeks we’ll have that part figured out.”
There was a lot of postfight discussion about a Mayweather-Maidana rematch because of how competitive and entertaining the fight was. Mayweather said immediately afterward that he would consider fighting the Argentine brawler again and Maidana, of course, said he would like another crack at him.
“He’s definitely in the mix,” Ellerbe said. “He’s a very dirty fighter. He used a lot of dirty tactics, but Floyd handled him easily and he gave the fans a great fight. But there’s a long list of opponents. Everybody wants to be in the Floyd Mayweather sweepstakes. Several guys have made it clear they want to be next.”
“If Amir Khan wants to flight Floyd Mayweather, we’re going to fight on Sept. 13,” Ellerbe said.
The pay-per-view figures for Mayweather-Maidana have not been reported yet, but Ellerbe said they will be soon.
“When we have the information together to put out an accurate number we will do so,” he said.
Various industry sources have said the fight did not reach 1 million buys and some say it sold considerably less. Ellerbe said he does not know what the fight generated yet.
“We’re still going through our accounting. In this day and age accounting takes a little longer because the pay-per-view universe is different than it was just a few years ago,” he said. “In order to get an accurate number it takes a little longer. When we put out the number we want to put out the right number.”