Mayweather to return to boxing ring
... in virtual matchups
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 [April 10, 2020]
(Reuters) - Floyd Mayweather
went undefeated during his storied career and will now hope to
maintain that dominance in simulated bouts after agreeing to put his
digital likeness up against other boxing greats, it was announced on
Thursday.
The joint venture between Mayweather, streaming platform fuboTV and
virtual entertainment company FaceBank, allows for some of greatest
fights of all time that never happened and could have never
happened.
"Resembling short films, these precise, real-time simulations will
feature top-secret results based on a modeling computer that will
make incremental relationships between actual performance, velocity
of punches, speed of reaction, strategy and stamina," read a news
release to announce the joint venture.
"These unprecedented virtual boxing matches will be exclusive to
live TV streaming platform fuboTV and pay-per-view partners to be
announced."
FaceBank will work with Mayweather to research and analyze
photographic, filmed and mathematical representations of the boxer's
face and body to develop a comprehensive computer-generated 'digital
likeness' of him.
The company expects to announce similar agreements with other boxing
greats in the coming weeks.
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Floyd Mayweather during a press conference after the fight REUTERS/Issei
Kato
Mayweather, who went 50-0 during his career, was famed for his
defensive skills, with his precise footwork and elusive head
movement making him an almost impossible target for even the best
boxers in the world to land a glove on.
The last professional fight of Mayweather's career came in August
2017 when he earned a 10th round technical knockout in a boxing
match against brash Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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