Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa

Mayweather denies agreement

Rizin Fighting Federation announced a bout between Mayweather and Nasukawa for New Year's Eve earlier this week, with the two fighters appearing alongside one another at a media event in Tokyo.

Yet boxer Mayweather, now back in the United States, says he never agreed to fight Nasukawa and understood that he would have an exhibition bout against an unnamed Rizin fighter for "a very large fee".