Floyd Mayweather is excited to share the ring with his former training partner Don Moore in Dubai this weekend, having worked with the star for several years.
Mayweather will step into the iron square for his third exhibition outing this weekend against former sparring partner Moore in Dubai. The fight will take place on a helipad atop the grandeur Burj Al Arab hotel which stands 700 feet above sea level, with just 20 fans set to witness the spectacle in the Middle East.
The boxing legend is excited to stage the event and expects all those competing to deliver a great spectacle. "I am pretty sure every fighter up here will put on a hell of a show, it is going to be very competitive and that is what we want to give the people," Mayweather said at a press conference in Nigeria ahead of the fight.
"I have been here as a professional for 26 years, Don Moore we have trained in the gym together and they were younger than I was. I was already a professional, I turned professional in 1996. He came from a boxing background and had a great career same as I did but it is not all about us. Travelling the world from the sport of boxing has been truly great."
Moore was one of Mayweather's most trusted sparring partners throughout his illustrious career in the sport and even trained with Floyd's uncle Roger. The pair shared several secret sparring sessions at Mayweather's Las Vegas boxing club, with Mayweather even hosting an open spar with Moore back in 2015.
Mayweather first met his upcoming opponent during a Michigan boxing tournament when the pair competed in the amateurs. Moore had offered to box the star who had been left without an opponent but the fight never took place with a new blossoming friendship instead emerging.
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The 42-year-old has since claimed that Mayweather had a "problem" with his style during sparring sessions and has promised he has the tools to dismantle the undefeated star. “Those sparring sessions, every time we sparred, everybody was gripped, they couldn’t wait to see it," Moore told The Sun.
“It was always competitive, Floyd always had a problem with me and as everybody knows, Roger trained Floyd, but he also trained Don. So the same training Roger was putting into Floyd, he put into this young man too. It’s just that Floyd was in the limelight and I wasn’t.
“I’m the underdog and I’ve already put in my hard work with Floyd, we’ve already sparred rounds, punch after punch. I went over and beyond the call of duty to prepare him for other fights - right now it’s my opportunity to show all the a** I’ve been kicking from back then. I’m not just no sparring partner, I’m a fighter.”
