Mike Tyson Ready To Fight Floyd Mayweather If Judge Clears Path

Mike Tyson’s got the green light to fight Floyd Mayweather if a judge clears the legal roadblock standing in their way.

Mike Tyson is locked and loaded to step back in the ring against Floyd Mayweather if a federal judge clears the path Thursday.

The Iron Man’s been medically cleared and ready to go, with promoters eyeing September 26 for what could be the most anticipated exhibition in boxing history.

But there’s a legal roadblock standing in the way, and it all came out during a courtroom battle over a contract dispute that’s been brewing for months.

CSI Sports, an event production company, filed a lawsuit claiming Mayweather breached an exclusive deal by agreeing to fight Mike Zambidis in Greece this Saturday instead of honoring commitments to face Tyson and Manny Pacquiao.

The company alleges that Mayweather took $150,000 from them for the Tyson fight, then posted the next day that he was fighting Zambidis.

CSI is demanding at least $4.65 million in damages and wants the judge to block the Zambidis exhibition entirely.

They’re arguing that losing the Mayweather exclusivity would be devastating to their reputation and bottom line.

Mayweather’s team is pushing back hard, claiming CSI never actually got their act together on the Tyson fight.

His attorneys say there was no locked-in venue, no secured funding, and no real logistics in place, so the whole deal fell apart on its own.

Mayweather filed to terminate the CSI contract on June 9, and his legal team is arguing that CSI waited way too long to file this lawsuit, only moving when the fight with Zambidis was about to happen.

According to ESPN, Judge Vernon S. Broderick spent two hours Wednesday grilling both sides about whether Tyson’s actually healthy enough to fight, what the real timeline looks like, and whether Netflix is even interested in broadcasting the Pacquiao rematch.

But Mayweather’s got bigger problems than just this contract fight.

He’s facing two felony charges in Las Vegas for allegedly writing a $200,000 bad check to buy a luxury watch in 2024.

If convicted, he could be looking at one to twenty years in prison.

On top of that, he’s got a federal tax lien hanging over his head for more than $7 million, and he’s currently suing an ex-adviser over an alleged $175 million scheme involving unauthorized loans and jewelry deals.

The boxing legend’s also been hit with multiple lawsuits from people and businesses claiming he owes them money or breached agreements related to managing his career.

The legal chaos surrounding Mayweather’s exhibition plans shows just how complicated things have gotten for the 49-year-old fighter.

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