By Ron Reed

Floyd Mayweather’s Australian visit has been postponed for up to a week — if it happens at all.

The undefeated multiple world champion was due in Melbourne on Thursday with the first of a series of promotional appearances due to be held that night before moving on to Sydney.

However, Sydney publicist Max Markson said today that the Melbourne show had been rescheduled for Thursday, February 5, with Mayweather likely to arrive next Monday or Tuesday.

He said this was because Mayweather — the world’s highest-paid sportsman — had decided to bring an entourage of 31, including five other boxers, and the logistics had to be reworked.

But Markson also admitted that Mayweather, who has done time in jail for assaulting a former girlfriend, had not yet been granted a visa.

Domestic Violence Victoria CEO Fiona McCormack has called on the Government to bar Mayweather from entering the country, while Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has also suggested the boxer would be unwelcome.

If he arrives, Mayweather’s first engagement will be a media conference at which he is expected to announce whether or not he will participate in a planned fight against Filipino multiple world champion Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2, which would be the biggest box-office event in boxing history.