| Floyd Mayweather Jr Vs. Juan Manuel Marquez UNITED STATES LAS VEGAS • MGM Grand Garden Arena • 19 September 2009 | |
| Floyd Mayweather Jr has made his return to the ring official. With his official announcement also came word of his first fight. Mayweather Jr. will face off against Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19th at The MGM Grand Garden Arena. A 1996 Olympic Bronze medalist for the United States, Floyd "Money" Mayweather has since gone on to win six world titles in five weight classes. He defeated Oscar de la Hoya in May of 2007 for the world junior middleweight championship in a record-setting super-fight. In his last fight, on December 8, 2007, Mayweather knocked out Ricky Hatton in the tenth round, handing the British star his first professional defeat. After the bout, announced his retirement from boxing, but he left the door open for a return to face Juan Manuel Marquez. Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez won the IBF world featherweight title against Manuel Medina in 2003. In November 2003, he unified the titles when he defeated Derrick Gainer and captured the WBA world featherweight title. Marquez' most recent fight was on 28 February 2009, when he stopped former World Champion Juan Diaz in the ninth round to add the WBO and WBA World Lightweight titles. MGM Grand Garden Arena Web Site | |
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