Mayweather vs Berto, His career ambagious down to its final seconds, Floyd Mayweather Jr. took a achievement lap about the ring, his anchor aloft in triumph.
After 19 years of accomplishment in the ring, he adapted one final bow.
Mayweather capped a arresting career with a archetypal Mayweather activity Saturday night, application his arresting diabolism to annul Andre Berto on his way to a accommodation so askew one adjudicator gave him every round.
The $32 actor he becoming was abridged change compared to what he got for Manny Pacquiao in his endure fight. But the added important amount was win No. 49 in the final activity of his chaste career, attached the mark of the backward ample champion, Rocky Marciano.
"You gotta apperceive if to go. I've had a abundant career," Mayweather said. "I'm abrogation with all my faculties. I feel like I'm acute and sharp."
Mayweather wasn't about to change what he does best in his endure fight.
Both ascendant and defensive, he acclimated all the tricks abstruse in a pro career that began in 1996 to yield a accepted accommodation over Berto and absorb his welterweight titles in what he insists was his final fight.
Mayweather won yet afresh in a activity area he was chased but never absolutely tested. He accumulated up credibility with a aciculate jab and quick adverse punches, abrogation Berto accepted at air a lot of of the night.
"What can I say, I was the bigger man tonight," Mayweather said
By the backward rounds, Mayweather was both talking to Berto (30-4) and cheeky him, defended in the ability he was acceptable big adjoin the 18-1 underdog. In the final abnormal of the activity he took a achievement lap, as the army of 13,395 stood and animated at the MGM Grand arena.
The ringside scorecards reflected Mayweather's dominance, with one adjudicator scoring a 120-108 shutout. The added array were 118-110 and 117-111, while The Associated Press had Mayweather acceptable 119-109.
Mayweather added to his pay-per-view abundance already again, and already afresh he didn't assume to accept to plan too harder to accomplish it. Berto, who had absent three of his endure six fights, approved to accomplish it a activity but his punches were advanced and mostly absent their marks.
"I pushed him to the limit," Berto said. "But he was just better."
Mayweather did what he's done best in his continued career, angry defensively and acrimonious his shots adjoin Berto. He was abnormally able if Berto rushed at him, application his adverse punching abilities to accumulate Berto away.
It was a acceptable aggregate already again, just as it had been in his 48 antecedent fights.
Mayweather had vowed to accord admirers an activity activity in his endure bout, afterwards getting criticized for angry defensively in his win over Manny Pacquiao. He did barter punches with Berto on several occasions, but never backward in the abridged continued abundant for Berto to acquisition his mark.
Mayweather complained to his ancestor in the bend during the activity that he aching his hand, but said back he is backward it didn't matter.
Ringside bite stats showed Mayweather's arresting wizardry. Mayweather was accustomed with landing 232 of 410 punches, while Berto landed alone 83 of 495.
"I was in abundant appearance but it was difficult to activity him," Berto said. "He was really, absolutely slippery."
Mayweather advised in at 146 pounds, a batter added than Berto.
Mayweather, in his 26th appellation fight, controlled the activity all night, now acceptance Berto to acreage added than one bite at a time. He was never able to aching Berto, though, and anesthetized up affairs to appoint him in exchanges.
Berto was decidedly acquiescent early, accomplishing little in the aperture circuit but bandy punches that hit annihilation but air. He best up the clip alpha in the fourth round, but Mayweather had little agitation bath and affective abroad from his agrarian punches.
By the 10th annular were talking so abundant debris that adjudicator Kenny Bayless alleged a arrest to the activity and told both fighters they bare to shut up.
If Mayweather retires it will end a career that saw him become a pay-per-view brilliant and acquire added money than any boxer afore him. Admitting a lot of in battle accept he will some day activity again, the 38-year-old said he had affluence of money and his bloom is added important than block records.
"I've able everything," Mayweather said. "I've done aggregate in my sport."
After 19 years of accomplishment in the ring, he adapted one final bow.
Mayweather capped a arresting career with a archetypal Mayweather activity Saturday night, application his arresting diabolism to annul Andre Berto on his way to a accommodation so askew one adjudicator gave him every round.
The $32 actor he becoming was abridged change compared to what he got for Manny Pacquiao in his endure fight. But the added important amount was win No. 49 in the final activity of his chaste career, attached the mark of the backward ample champion, Rocky Marciano.
"You gotta apperceive if to go. I've had a abundant career," Mayweather said. "I'm abrogation with all my faculties. I feel like I'm acute and sharp."
Mayweather wasn't about to change what he does best in his endure fight.
Both ascendant and defensive, he acclimated all the tricks abstruse in a pro career that began in 1996 to yield a accepted accommodation over Berto and absorb his welterweight titles in what he insists was his final fight.
Mayweather won yet afresh in a activity area he was chased but never absolutely tested. He accumulated up credibility with a aciculate jab and quick adverse punches, abrogation Berto accepted at air a lot of of the night.
"What can I say, I was the bigger man tonight," Mayweather said
By the backward rounds, Mayweather was both talking to Berto (30-4) and cheeky him, defended in the ability he was acceptable big adjoin the 18-1 underdog. In the final abnormal of the activity he took a achievement lap, as the army of 13,395 stood and animated at the MGM Grand arena.
The ringside scorecards reflected Mayweather's dominance, with one adjudicator scoring a 120-108 shutout. The added array were 118-110 and 117-111, while The Associated Press had Mayweather acceptable 119-109.
Mayweather added to his pay-per-view abundance already again, and already afresh he didn't assume to accept to plan too harder to accomplish it. Berto, who had absent three of his endure six fights, approved to accomplish it a activity but his punches were advanced and mostly absent their marks.
"I pushed him to the limit," Berto said. "But he was just better."
Mayweather did what he's done best in his continued career, angry defensively and acrimonious his shots adjoin Berto. He was abnormally able if Berto rushed at him, application his adverse punching abilities to accumulate Berto away.
It was a acceptable aggregate already again, just as it had been in his 48 antecedent fights.
Mayweather had vowed to accord admirers an activity activity in his endure bout, afterwards getting criticized for angry defensively in his win over Manny Pacquiao. He did barter punches with Berto on several occasions, but never backward in the abridged continued abundant for Berto to acquisition his mark.
Mayweather complained to his ancestor in the bend during the activity that he aching his hand, but said back he is backward it didn't matter.
Ringside bite stats showed Mayweather's arresting wizardry. Mayweather was accustomed with landing 232 of 410 punches, while Berto landed alone 83 of 495.
"I was in abundant appearance but it was difficult to activity him," Berto said. "He was really, absolutely slippery."
Mayweather advised in at 146 pounds, a batter added than Berto.
Mayweather, in his 26th appellation fight, controlled the activity all night, now acceptance Berto to acreage added than one bite at a time. He was never able to aching Berto, though, and anesthetized up affairs to appoint him in exchanges.
Berto was decidedly acquiescent early, accomplishing little in the aperture circuit but bandy punches that hit annihilation but air. He best up the clip alpha in the fourth round, but Mayweather had little agitation bath and affective abroad from his agrarian punches.
By the 10th annular were talking so abundant debris that adjudicator Kenny Bayless alleged a arrest to the activity and told both fighters they bare to shut up.
If Mayweather retires it will end a career that saw him become a pay-per-view brilliant and acquire added money than any boxer afore him. Admitting a lot of in battle accept he will some day activity again, the 38-year-old said he had affluence of money and his bloom is added important than block records.
"I've able everything," Mayweather said. "I've done aggregate in my sport."
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