Floyd Mayweather backed to make full boxing return after Money Kicks exhibition

The 44-year-old former fighter has regularly insisted he will never get back in the ring for a professional bout, despite competing in a number of exhibition bouts since his 2017 retirement

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Floyd Mayweather has been backed to make a comeback to professional boxing after his exhibition bout with Money Kicks next month.

Mayweather has frequently vowed to never box in a sanctioned bout again after going 50-0 with his win over Conor McGregor back in 2017.

But his coach Gerald Tucker believes that he will be back for another fully professional bout after he takes on YouTuber Rashed ‘Money Kicks’ Belhasa in Dubai on February 20.

He and the social media star look set to square off atop the Burj Al Arab on a helipad 700m above ground, with lawyers currently looking over the finer details of the contract.

And Tucker thinks that once he has stepped back into the ring for his third exhibition since retiring in 2017, he will begin working on professional fight number 51.

“I think he’s going to fight a couple of times every year,” Tucker told The Sun in an interview from training camp.

“It’s great money and there’s people like me, huge fans of Floyd’s style that want to see him in the ring just displaying his skills, that are unmatched in the history of the sport.

“I think he’ll do that just for people like me. But, I’m also optimistic we may see Floyd fight one day.

“I’m not giving up any secrets or anything, I’m just hopeful, I feel it.

“Nothing from anything he’s said, just from the way he looks in the gym and how easy it is for him to beat people up in sparring.

“And I mean guys who could become a world champion in the next year or two.

“So yeah, I’m very optimistic we’ll see him in the ring one more time and put his unbeaten, flawless record on the line.”

The legendary former champion has taken to promoting and coaching during his time away from fighting, guiding the career of Gervonta Davis under his Mayweather Promotions banner

He also helped to train Tyron Woodley, alongside Tucker, for his first fight with Jake Paul last summer during a meeting in Florida.

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Mayweather was recently spotted with Anthony Joshua as the two-time heavyweight champion trained for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk which is expected to take place later this year.

Since retiring, he has taken on Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa and YouTuber Logan Paul in two big-money exhibition bouts which do not show up on his record.

He brutally knocked out Nasukawa within a round on New Years Eve in 2018, before going the eight-round distance with Paul last summer at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.

But he has insisted he won’t ever return to a professional fight, saying after the bout: “I don’t miss boxing, I just go and have fun.

“That’s why I did an exhibition with Logan Paul, we had fun, I had fun.

“We gave people a bit of fun and people have to know that there is a difference between a real fight and an exhibition.

“With an exhibition I was only training from time to time. If it was a real fight there would have been blood from the beginning.”