{"id":42284,"date":"2021-05-11T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42284"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:32:25","slug":"floyd-mayweather-to-release-nft-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/floyd-mayweather-to-release-nft-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather to release NFT collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather, multiple-time world boxing champion, announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) ahead of his bout with YouTuber Logan Paul.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\n<iframe loading=\\\"lazy\\\" title=\\\"Floyd Mayweather Jr. | Non Fungible Token (NFT)\\\" width=\\\"500\\\" height=\\\"375\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGe92cH8UP4?feature=oembed\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" allow=\\\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\\\" referrerpolicy=\\\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\\\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cRight now my career is over, but my name will live on thanks to what I did, the legacy I left, and the mark I left in sport,\u201d Mayweather said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On May 26, the athlete will release as NFTs mementos, artworks and animations. The project involved <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/boxing-icon-floyd-mayweather-jr-will-launch-his-first-drop-of-legacy-collection-nfts-ahead-of-his-fight-with-logan-paul-301288503.html\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">\u0443\u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0438<\/a> IronBend, Reality Gaming Group and Zytara Labs.<\/p>\n<p>It is not specified on which marketplace the non-fungible tokens will be listed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Mayweather promoted the initial coin offering (ICO) of the market-prediction project Stox. Two years later an investor accused the blockchain platform and its founder Moshe Hogeg of misusing more than $4.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined Mayweather $614 000 for promoting the Centra Tech ICO. The boxer did not admit or deny the regulator&#8217;s allegations but agreed to pay the ill-gotten gains, the penalty and interest.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a Florida court had ruled the project&#8217;s token a security. The founders of Centra Tech were accused of deceiving investors. In 2020, one of them received<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/centra-tech-co-founder-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison\"> year in prison <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov put up for auction<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/khabib-nurmagomedov-sets-starting-price-for-his-nft-collection\"> a unique NFT<\/a> at a starting price of $290,000.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Canadian footballer of Bayern Munich Alphonso Davies announced<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bayern-star-alphonso-davies-to-release-nft-collection\"> the release of his own collection<\/a> of non-fungible tokens on the Binance platform.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather, a multiple-time world boxing champion, announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) ahead of his bout with YouTuber Logan Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2182,1213],"class_list":["post-42284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42286,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42284\/revisions\/42286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}