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Mayweather pulls out of Dec. 31 fight, says he ‘never agreed’ to bout

Kohjiro Kinno / ESPN Images(NEW YORK) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t be stepping out of retirement in time for the New Year after all.

The 41-year-old retired boxer said in an Instagram post Wednesday that the fight between him and 20-year-old Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa that was announced earlier this week wasn’t going to happen, saying he “never agreed to an official bout.”

“I was asked to participate in a 9 minute exhibition of 3 rounds with an opponent selected by the ‘Rizen Fighting Federation,’ Mayweather said.

“This exhibition was previously arranged as a ‘Special Bout’ purely for entertainment purposes with no

 

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