Floyd Mayweather drops lawsuit against a reporter from Business Insider — learn what it was all about below.
Mayweather at the moment is the one who is contending with all sorts of issues and lawsuits in various places.
With the IRS and Mayweather having big problems.
Mayweather had a $100 million lawsuit against a Business Insider reporter and with Business Insider. He voluntarily dismissed it. Here’s what happened:
- Who: Floyd Mayweather, 50-0 retired boxer, sued in May 2025
- Who he sued: Business Insider and reporter Daniel Geiger
- Amount: $100 million in damages
- Trigger: March 2025 article on Mayweather’s $400M real estate deal
- The deal: Mayweather claimed he bought 62 Manhattan apartment buildings
- BI’s claim: Article said “no evidence there has been a sale”
- Mayweather’s claims: Said Geiger ignored proof, harassed contacts, showed racial bias
- Lawsuit counts: Defamation, emotional distress, prima facie tort
- He wanted: $100M, a retraction, and a court order
- Outcome: Mayweather dropped the suit May 4, 2026. Both sides paid their own costs
That is that then.
Floyd Mayweather is still yet to official confirm the May Pac 2 fight for September on Netflix.
The Mike Tyson exhibition also looks to be gone for Mayweather.
The longer this goes on for Mayweather the worse it will be for him.
Floyd Mayweather now looks like he needs the May Pac 2 fight as a proper professional boxing rematch at this point.
People would not be interested in it as an exhibition.
