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Summary: Floyd Mayweather Jr. has made his New Year's Eve plans official.<br><br>Mayweather will exit retirement once again and fight 20-year-old Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa on Dec. 31 at the 37,000-seat Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, about a half-hour drive outside of Tokyo.<br><br>Mayweather and Nasukawa appeared at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday (Sunday night United States time) that was streamed worldwide on YouTube to announce the fight with officials from the Rizin Fighting Federation, a Japanese promotional company founded in 2015 that puts on MMA and kickboxing events.<br><br>Although the fight was announced, several key details were not, including the specific rules of the bout, the number of rounds, the weight limit, how the fight broadcast would be distributed and what type of gloves they would wear. Earlier in the day, Mayweather posted a photo of himself on social media wearing Rizin MMA gloves.<br><br>Before the announcement, Mayweather posted a photo on Instagram of himself wearing Rizin gloves with the caption "December 31st 2018 #Tokyo."