Headlining an internet PPV (courtesy of The Zeus Network, for the surprisingly restrained but still outrageous price of $29.99) on Saturday afternoon. While the opponent here does have a professional boxing debut under his belt (making his successful debut last June with a 39-37 referee's decision over Nicaraguan-Cataluñian journeyman Jennifer Alexander Gálvez Zeledon) this will continue former longtime p4p king FMJ's lengthy post-retirement tour of exhibitions, his sixth in as many years since officially reaching the 50-0 mark versus Conor McGregor - and his fourth in just the last nine months. Chalmers is a reality TV star who embarked on a brief pro MMA campaign from 2017 until 2020, going 5-2 with two kayos and three submissions (one loss by sub and one by decision) and will be taking his assignment on precisely a month's notice after substituting in for his fellow Englishman and former kickboxing world titlist Liam Harrison. One could justifiably argue that Chalmers, along with Mayweather's own former sparring partner Donald Julian Moore - as 'veterans' of the sport (to different extents) may just as well have been considered addendums onto that 50-0 record in sanctioned pro bouts, as the line of logic rendering them unworthy of more than an "exhibition" while it was perfectly fine to have McGregor serve as number fifty despite making his pro boxing debut in that very match seems opaquely arbitrary (to an uncynical mind, anyhow - we all know the logic boiled down to money, with a lowercase "m"). But here we are. Mayweather is currently 45 but on fight night will have celebrated his forty-sixth birthday on its Eve, this coming Friday. Chalmers is a decade younger and brings a two inch height advantage, with the guidance of coach Adam Booth (famed as David Haye's trainer and not much else of consequence since, if the name sounds familiar).
Bookmakers have Chalmers a 7/1 underdog, which is a little confusing. Exhibitions aren't scored, which means the only way to "win" really is by KO (and indeed Mayweather has stopped his last five opponents in exhibitions within schedule) so I guess those are the odds for him to stop Mayweather? But you'd expect those odds to be much longer, 45 or no.
@CST80 Chalmers looks like if you took the demon spawn of an unnatural breeding between WWE superstars Elias and Eli Drake/L.A. Knight, but made him a deeply closeted twink who's asked every single girlfriend he's had to peg him with the lights off. Pull up any few pics of him, you'll see it.
