The long-awaited Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Logan Paul exhibition match will happen. The two will fight on June 6 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.

The news of the bout was confirmed on Twitter by the Mayweather Promotions, who tweeted out the news along with the caption, “The historic crossover event is signed & sealed!” the tweet read. “Mayweather vs. Paul live at Hard Rock Sunday, June 6th.”

The fight was originally scheduled for February but was postponed indefinitely until Tuesday’s announcement. The date of the fight is later than when most had speculated. It was expected that the two would fight on June 5.

The announcement did not give more details about the fight nor did it disclose the rules. When the fight was originally scheduled for February, the agreed terms required Mayweather to weigh under 160 pounds and for Paul to weigh under 190 pounds.

Mayweather’s last professional fight was in 2017 against UFC star Conor McGregor. It was one of the most hyped crossover matches and was a 10-round TKO win for Mayweather. The win improved the five-time champion’s career record to 50-0. The boxing legend last fought in 2018 in an exhibition bout against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa. The exhibition match resulted in another win for the boxing legend, a first-round TKO win.

On the other hand, Paul along with his younger brother, Jake Paul, are YouTubers-turned-boxers. The elder Paul has not experienced the same success as his younger brother. The elder has only had two boxing bouts, an exhibition and a professional one. Both bouts were against fellow YouTuber KSI. Both matches were a loss for the elder Paul.

Mayweather is the overwhelming favorite to win the exhibition match. For now, there is no additional information about the fight card.

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Floyd Mayweather has pulled himself from the proposed UFC bout against  Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa.

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After a lengthy explanation on Twitter, Floyd announced his secession from the fight, claiming he was misinformed about the circumstances. Mayweather and his team were reportedly under the impression that the fight was to be a small exhibition match and never agreed to an official bout.

“Ultimately, I was asked to participate in a 9-minute exhibition of 3 rounds with an opponent selected by the Rizen Fighting Federation,” Mayweather wrote. “What I was originally informed of (it) by Brent Johnson of One Entertainment was that this was to be an exhibition put on for a small group of wealthy spectators for a very large fee. This exhibition was previously arranged as a ‘Special Bout’ purely for entertainment purposes with no intentions of being represented as an official fight card nor televised worldwide.”

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Mayweather and his former opponent, the 20-year-old Nasukawa, appeared Monday at a news conference and announced the fight along with organizers of the event, which was set for Dec. 31 at the 37,000-seat Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, just outside of Tokyo.

The fight would have been Mayweather’s first since his August 2017 match against Conor McGregor. He has been adamant about his status as a retired boxer, although Mayweather said he planned to come out of retirement and announced in September that he would face Manny Pacquiao in a rematch. The fight likely would not be until at least the spring, as Pacquiao plans to defend his title against Adrian Broner, although Mayweather announced that it would take place in December.