Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather is set to return to Japan for another exhibition bout to take on MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura.
The event was announced at a press conference on Monday, and will take place in September under the Rizin banner where Asakura has spent the majority of his career.
Asakura has fought his past 12 professional bouts for Rizin while amassing a 16-3 record which contains eight knockouts.
Aged 29, he has not competed in 2022 thus far but made three outings in 2021 where he beat Kyohei Hagiwara and Yutaka Saito by unanimous decision and ended Satoshi Yamasu in the first round.
Mayweather retired from professional boxing with an unblemished 50-0 record in 2017 after a crossover bout with UFC icon Conor McGregor.
Since then, when not promoting next generation superstar boxers such as WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis via his Mayweather Promotions company, Mayweather has stayed busy by taking part in exhibition bouts.
The first of these came in Japan in 2018 when…
