Floyd Mayweather Says New Year's Eve Fight With Japanese Kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa Is Back On

Don’t get excited.

Here’s all you need to know from this Floyd Mayweather appearance on TMZ – his “fight” with Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa is back on for New Year’s Eve, and it’ll be a 9-minute (three rounds, three minutes each) boxing exhibition. He describes it as a “light” exhibition, as well, and continually spoke about it to TMZ like it would basically be a sparring session where Tenshin Nasukawa wouldn’t even necessarily try to knock the 50-0 retired professional boxer out, and since it’s an exhibition, it won’t count towards his record one way or another, so it’s pretty lame all around.

One thing this TMZ spot diiiiiiid make me question was the legitimacy of his story about getting duped by RIZIN (which he still does not know how to pronounce) via the whole press conference fiasco thing, though. From the sounds of this, I now think what many in the MMA media have already suggested: Floyd accepted a “hybrid rules” exhibition match with a Japanese kickboxer he’s never heard of, thinking nothing of it, and then backed out the second he saw a highlight tape of Tenshin.

Either retire or don’t, punk. Don’t make me start having to wake up in the middle of the night to cover your whack ass touchbutt sessions. Oh, and Floyd? Coach Kav says there’s a name for what you folks are going to do in the ring on New Year’s Eve…