Floyd Mayweather gets back in the ring on November 13 when he faces YouTuber Deji Olatunji. The exhibition boxing bout will take place at the Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai, UAE.

Mayweather, 45, won multiple world titles from super featherweight to light middleweight during a glittering career, and is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest boxers of all time.

The Michigan born star always had a sense of his own worth, earning the nickname “Money”, as many of his fights brought in huge amounts of cash.

Recently he has continued this trend with a number of lucrative exhibitions of which next Sunday´s bout with Deji is the latest.

Did Floyd Mayweather get a beard transplant?

However, it was another nickname of Mayweather's, “Pretty Boy” which was in focus in January 2021 when, in the lead up to his exhibition bout against Logan Paul, Mayweather was seen sporting a beard.

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All through his career Mayweather, aside from his trademark goatee, was clean shaven and had either a very short buzz cut or went completely bald. So, the sight of him with a beard and more hair than usual provoked plenty of debate, with many suggesting he had undergone a transplant.

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - AUGUST 11: Floyd Mayweather Jr. attends a game between the Chicago Sky and the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob ULTRA Arena on August 11, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - AUGUST 11: Floyd Mayweather Jr. attends a game between the Chicago Sky and the Las Vegas Aces at Michelob ULTRA Arena on August 11, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

UFC commentator Joe Rogan was one of the first to discuss Mayweather's new look:

“I think Floyd Mayweather got a face transplant. I think he got a hair transplant on his cheeks. Oh! s**t Floyd, because it wasn’t until he was like forty years old.

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"That all of a sudden he had a beard like he always had you know, a little goatee. But he never had a beard and now he went to Turkey. I think. They do a lot of them for some reason, they do a lot of them in Turkey.”

50 Cent's savage take on Floyd Mayweather's facial hair

Another who was quick of the mark was rapper 50 Cent, who in a deleted post full of laughing face emoji’s, did not hold back, suggesting that Mayweather had taken hair from an entirely different part of his anatomy and applied it to his face.

YouTuber, Hairliciously, who has had a transplant of his own, backed up the claims that Mayweather had done likewise saying:

Expert has his say

“Looking at the photo it definitely looks like a beard transplant. You can clearly see the grafts that were implanted all through his beard…..Having seen countless numbers of hair and beard transplants, I am 100% sure that [Floyd Mayweather got] a beard and hair transplant.”

50 Cent and the former champion had been good friends; however, they had a sticky spell after a public war of words where the rapper suggested Mayweather's affluent lifestyle was a facade and that he was actually close to going broke.

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