Тhe Best Potential Opponents for a Floyd Mayweather Comeback Fight

He hasn’t even been retired for a year, and Floyd Mayweather is already hinting at a comeback.

It’s not unexpected. Pretty much no one in boxing believed Mayweather, who was 38 at the time, when he announced his last fight would be against Andre Berto last year. After Mayweather dominated Berto as expected, he stuck to the script and maintained we would never see him fight again.

But prizefighters don’t usually walk away from the sport while they still have as much earning potential as Mayweather, so let’s have a look at the best possible opponents for Mayweather should he decide to go for 50-0.

In his interview with Jim Gray, Mayweather pretty much ruled out the possibility of facing middleweight Gennady Golovkin.

Mayweather considers Golovkin too large to fight, and there is some truth to that.

Errol Spence dismantle Chris Algieri in just five rounds last month. Algieri is no bum, but Spence made the good and tough boxer look like an amateur in comparison.

At 20-0, Spence appears to be the heir apparent to Mayweather's supremacy at welterweight. What better way to ensure it than by seizing the mantle directly?

The only welterweight title Mayweather didn’t retire with last year was Kell Brook’s IBF belt. Brook, 30, is young, gifted, unbeaten and in his prime. Where Spence might be just heading into his best years, Brook is conceivably there.

Mayweather-Brook would have huge international appeal

He’s already beaten Alvarez, but the 25-year-old Mexican has greatly improved since 2013.

Besides, Khan’s speed might just give Mayweather fits anyway.

The most dangerous fight that Mayweather might consider reasonable would probably be Erislandy Lara.

The Cuban southpaw has a longer reach than Mayweather and fights in a way that might make Mayweather become the stalker instead of the boxer.

No potential fight would make more sense for Mayweather, or more money for that matter, than a rematch with Manny Pacquiao.

Mayweather-Pacquiao 2 could be fought in the Philippines. What better way to affirm superiority over a rival than beating him again right in front of his home crowd?