Floyd Mayweather is about to face skilled fighter, John Gotti III, the grandson of notorious mafia boss John Gotti, in his subsequent money-spinning exhibition bout. The pair will sq. off on June 11 in Sunrise, Florida in an occasion billed as "Last Name Matters".

An official press convention is scheduled to happen on Thursday at The Gabriel Miami Downtown, Curio Collection by Hilton. The battle occasion will then be hosted on the FLA Live Arena down the highway.

Mayweather is dedicating the occasion in loving reminiscence of Marikit “Kitchie” Laurico, his longtime assistant who handed away immediately in April. His opponent, Gotti III, has competed professionally as each a boxer and MMA fighter.

The 30-year-old began off in MMA, compiling a 5-1 report within the sport earlier than making the transition to the squared circle in 2022 the place he's 2-0. Gotti III, can be the grandson of well-known New York mobster Gotti, higher often called 'Teflon Don'.

The Italian-American gangster Gotti was the infamous chief of the Gambino crime household in the course of the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. At his peak, Gotti was some of the highly effective and harmful mafia bosses within the United States and was concerned in lots of high-profile crime circumstances.

Most notably for his half in the most important unrecovered money theft in historical past, the notorious Lufthansa Heist at Kennedy Airport. Gotti was ultimately caught and convicted on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit homicide and racketeering in 1992.

After being discovered responsible of the fees he was given life imprisonment and died behind bars in 2002. The variety of rounds, weight and guidelines for Mayweather vs Gotti III are but to be introduced with additional particulars on the bout anticipated at tomorrow's launch press occasion.