By Chris Williams Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) says he plans on retiring next year in September. In a dinner event in South Africa on Friday, Mayweather said this via AP “September 2015 will be my last.” Mayweather is expected to finish out the remaining 4 fights on his Showtime/CBS 6-fight contract next year, and September is obviously his cutoff for when he feels he’ll be finished with the contract.
But just because Mayweather is saying he’ll be retiring in September 2015 doesn’t mean he actually will. If he runs the table and finishes the remaining 4 fights on his Showtime contract looking good and winning all 4 fights, it’s very likely that Showtime or maybe even HBO will offer Mayweather another huge contract.
It might not be a 6-fight contract, because that would be asking a lot of the 37-year-old Mayweather to fight another 6 times. But Showtime would be crazy not to try and take advantage of signing Mayweather to another contract. He’s helped the company in a huge way in adding subscribers and it would be a big plus for them to keep him going for a little while longer.
The one thing that could keep Mayweather from continuing his career is a lack of opponents. He’ll have fought everyone worth fighting by the time he completes his contract. By then he likely will have fought Manny Pacquiao, if the Filipino star does what Mayweather has asked him to by leaving Bob Arum. If not, then it really won’t matter too much, because Mayweather will have made a bundle in fighting other key welterweights and put a stamp on his legacy.
Mayweather is expected to fight Amir Khan next on May 3rd. It’s not a great fight, but it shows you how Mayweather is starting to run out of decent competition. He’s getting to the bottom of the barrel now and will be taking on the lesser names unless he can get Pacquiao to fight him.
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