Floyd said he will fight Saturday, then in May and have his last fight next September. #boxing #Mayhem

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) September 9, 2014

By Dan Ambrose: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) will be finishing his boxing career next year in September in his final fight. Before then, he plans on fighting this Saturday of course against Marcos Maidana, and the next May before wrapping his 19-year pro career up in September presumably on the Mexican Independence Day holiday.

If all goes right, Mayweather will finish his career at 49-0, and he’ll likely be given a huge offer from Showitme/CBS to fight against to go for his 50th win. If Mayweather looks impressive in his next three fights then it wouldn’t be at all surprising if Showtime gives Mayweather another contract, albeit a shorter contract of say 3 fights rather than 6.

If Showtime doesn’t offer Mayweather a new contract at that stage then you can bet that HBO will, because Mayweather brings in way too many pay-per-view buys for them not to offer him a new contract.

“I only got two more fights left (after Saturday) and after the next two fights I just want to build the Mayweather Promotions brand,” Mayweather said. “My next fight is in May and my last fight is in September, so a year from now will be my last fight.”

If Mayweather is going to fight in May and September then he could have competition from Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who recently said that May and September are Mexican dates because they fall on the Mexican holidays. Canelo says he’s going to take those dates back. If he ends up competing with Mayweather for both of those dates then we could see two watered down pay-per-view cards on separate networks.

It looks like the gloves that will be worn by Maidana this Saturday will be the Everlast Powerlock gloves rather than the MX gloves that Maidana was hoping to wear.

“There’s nothing we can do. We agreed, we’re fighting in those gloves, so there’s not going to be no excuses,” Garcia said via Dan Rafael of ESPN. “The fight is going to be the fight, but it does make a difference, and Mayweather’s the only fighter that can make those calls, make those decisions, and we also have to understand that that’s the way it is. That’s what business is. But no, we are not going to have any, and we can’t have any excuses.”

Mayweather will be wearing gloves with a lot of padding around the knuckle areas as well so it’s not like he’s going to gain an advantage over Maidana in terms of the gloves. The only thing that we’re going to see is Maidana not wearing the puncher’s gloves that he was hoping on wearing. It shouldn’t matter if he’s got the kind of power that most boxing fans think he has.

It’s not as if Maidana has been wearing the MX gloves for his entire career when he was knocking guys out earlier in his career. He was able to KO fighters with non-puncher’s gloves.
“In our first fight, the glove issue affected me a little,” Maidana said. “But now, I know how [Mayweather] operates, and if he wants different gloves, I’ll have different gloves waiting for him. I’ll bring a few options so I’m not caught off guard again.”

Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe is saying that Maidana will be using the Everlast Powerlock gloves, and that seems to be the ones that Mayweather and Ellerbe have agreed on. It’s unknown whether they’ll change their mind the night before the fight.