{"id":8473,"date":"2018-11-05T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:59:59","slug":"floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\" alt=\"Floyd &#039;Money&#039; Mayweather vs Tenshin Nasukawa \" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8474\" \/><strong>Floyd \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather<\/strong> had promised his fans that he would come out of retirement and step into the ring before 2018. Mayweather surprised everyone after an official announcement was made that he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner. <\/p>\n<p>Mayweather who has a 50-0 record in boxing is expected to fight 20 year old <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teppentenshin\">Tenshin Nasukawa who is a phenomenal kickboxer<\/a> with a <em>27-0<\/em> record. RIZIN is known for hosting mixed martial arts (MMA) and kickboxing fights and Nasukawa last fight was a kickboxing match in September which he won. <\/p>\n<p>There is no clear indication if this fight between Mayweather and Nasukawa will be a boxing match, a kickboxing match or an MMA match. The fact that Mayweather is fighting in RIZIN comes as a major surprise as there were rumours floating around that he could end up going to the UFC and taking on one of their stars in either a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/rumours-of-floyd-mayweather-versus-connor-mcgregor-rematch-surface\/\">rematch with Conor McGregor<\/a> or <strong>Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WSIvgVxdKQg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mayweather said <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It wasn&#39;t easy to make this happen but we told the people anything is possible, so now we&#39;re here and we want make sure that we give the people in Tokyo what they want see &#8212; blood, sweat and tears. I&#39;m older now. I think that when it comes to experience, I have more experience on my side. But when it comes to youth, youth is on his side<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Strategic Move From Mayweather?<\/h2>\n<p>Mayweather has sold the biggest pay-per-view events in the world and has the opportunity to fight anyone of his choice in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/boxing\">boxing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/mixed-martial-arts\">MMA<\/a> world and make a lot of money. So it is very strange in some ways as to why he chose RIZIN and a relatively unknown fighter for a bout in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Money Mayweather is always looking out for himself and this could be just a warm-up MMA fight before he decides to step into the UFC Octagon with either Khabib or McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov\u2019s manager has teased in recent weeks that they had something big in the pipeline and Khabib also went on to post an old video of Mayweather stepping into the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rizinff.com\">RIZIN<\/a> has had a reputation in the fast of fixing fights and it will be interesting to see if Mayweather comes out victorious on December 31 and then prepares for an MMA fight in the UFC in 2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather had promised his fans that he would come out of retirement and step into the ring before 2018. Mayweather surprised everyone after an official announcement was made that he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner. Mayweather who has a 50-0 record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Landon Wheeler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Landon Wheeler\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Landon Wheeler\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\"},\"headline\":\"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":416,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/\",\"name\":\"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\"},\"description\":\"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg\",\"width\":380,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Floyd 'Money' Mayweather vs Tenshin Nasukawa\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\",\"name\":\"Landon Wheeler\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Landon Wheeler\"},\"description\":\"All things casino related are what interests Landon, and having been involved in that industry for the last thirty years and having actually worked in several different roles in the casino industry he is definitely very well placed to keep you in the know in regards to what is happening in the casino industry as a whole.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/landon-wheeler\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa","description":"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa","og_description":"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner","og_url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/","article_published_time":"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Landon Wheeler","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Landon Wheeler","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/"},"author":{"name":"Landon Wheeler","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d"},"headline":"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa","datePublished":"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/"},"wordCount":416,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg","articleSection":["Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/","name":"Mayweather To Fight At RIZIN 14 Against Tenshin Nasukawa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg","datePublished":"2018-11-05T15:59:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d"},"description":"Mayweather surprised everyone officially saying he would fight in Japan on December 31 at the iconic Saitama Super Arena under the RIZIN banner","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-fight-at-rizin-14-against-tenshin-nasukawa\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/floyd-mayweather-vs-tenshin-nasukawa.jpg","width":380,"height":250,"caption":"Floyd 'Money' Mayweather vs Tenshin Nasukawa"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d","name":"Landon Wheeler","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"Landon Wheeler"},"description":"All things casino related are what interests Landon, and having been involved in that industry for the last thirty years and having actually worked in several different roles in the casino industry he is definitely very well placed to keep you in the know in regards to what is happening in the casino industry as a whole.","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/author\/landon-wheeler\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}