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Floyd Mayweather Wins by Unanimous Decision in Richest Fight Ever with Manny Pacquiao

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John Locher—AP Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, lands a left to the head of Manny Pacquiao, from the Philippines, during their welterweight title fight on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas

"I thought I won the fight, he didn't do anything," Pacquiao said

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Mayweather used his reach and his jab Saturday night to frustrate Manny Pacquiao, piling up enough points to win a unanimous decision in their welterweight title bout. Mayweather remained unbeaten in 48 fights with a win that cemented his legacy as the best of his generation.

Pacquiao did what he wanted to do, chasing Mayweather around the ring most of the fight. But he was never able to land a sustained volume of punches, often looking frustrated as Mayweather worked his defensive wizardry once again.
Two ringside judges scored the fight 116-112, while the third had it 118-110. The Associated Press had Mayweather ahead 115-113.
“I take my hat off to Manny Pacquiao. I see now why he is at the pinnacle of boxing,” Mayweather said. “I knew he was going to push me, win some rounds. I wasn’t being hit with a lot of shots until I sit in a pocket and he landed a lot of shots.”

The richest fight in boxing history — a bout that made Mayweather at least $180 million — wasn’t the best. Far from it, with long periods where both fighters fought cautiously, looking for an edge.
There were no knockdowns, and neither fighter seemed terribly hurt at any time. Pacquiao landed probably the biggest punch in the fight in the fourth round — a left hand that sent Mayweather into the ropes — but he wasn’t able to consistently land against the elusive champion.
The fight was a chess match, with Mayweather using his jab to keep Pacquiao away most of the fight. Pacquiao tried to force the action, but Mayweather was often out of his reach by the time he found his way inside.
“I thought I won the fight, he didn’t do anything,” Pacquiao said. “I got him many times with a lot of punches.”

A sellout crowd at the MGM Grand arena roared every time Pacquiao threw a punch, but a good percentage of what he threw never landed. Mayweather often came back with straight right hands, then moved away before Pacquiao could respond.
Ringside punch stats showed Mayweather landing 148 punches of 435, while Pacquiao landed 81 of 429. The volume of punches for Pacquiao was a lot lower than the 600-700 he usually throws in a fight as he tried to measure his aggression against an opponent who was hard to trap.
Mayweather fought confidently in the late rounds, winning the last two rounds on all three scorecards. In the final seconds of the fight he raised his right hand in victory and after the bell rang stood on the ropes, pounding his heart with his gloves.

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“You’re tough,” he said to Pacquiao, hugging him in the ring.
Five years in the making, the richest fight ever unfolded before a glittering crowd of celebrities, high rollers and people who had enough money to pay for ringside seats going for $40,000 and up. Before it did, though, it was delayed about a half hour because cable and satellite systems were having trouble keeping up with the pay-per-view demand.
They paid big money to watch two superstars fight for their legacies — and in Pacquiao’s case his country — in addition to the staggering paydays for both.
Pacquiao had vowed to take the fight to Mayweather and force him into a war. His camp thought Mayweather’s 38-year-old legs weren’t what they once were, and that he couldn’t be on the move the entire fight.

“He is moving around, not easy to throw punches when people moving around,” Pacquiao said. ” When he stayed, I threw a lot of punches. That’s a fight.”
But Mayweather proved them wrong, moving well and taking pot shots at Pacquiao. His only real moment of trouble came in the fourth round when Pacquiao landed his left hand and then flurried to Mayweather’s head on the ropes, but he escaped and shook his head at Pacquiao as if to say you didn’t hurt me.
In the corner between rounds, Mayweather’s father, Floyd Sr. kept yelling at his son to do more. But Mayweather was content to stick with what was working and not take a risk that could cost him the fight.
“I’m a calculated fighter, he is a tough competitor,” Mayweather said. “My dad wanted me to do more but Pacquiao is an awkward fighter.”

Mayweather said that his fight in September against a yet-to-be-determined opponent would be his last before retirement.
The fight was expected to make Mayweather some $180 million and Pacquiao $120 million, depending on pay-per-view sales. The live gate alone was more than $70 million, and the bout was expected to easily smash the pay-per-view record of 2.48 million buys set in 2007 when Mayweather fought Oscar De La Hoya.
But while the frenzy over the fight pushed up tickets to 3-4 times their retail price the week of the fight, prices dropped dramatically as the fight neared and some tickets were being resold for less than face value.
Boxing fans called for the fight to be made five years ago, when both men were in their undisputed prime. But squabbles over promoters, drug testing and a variety of other issues sidelined it until Pacquiao beat Chris Algieri in November and immediately launched a campaign to get the fight made.

When they finally got it, it wasn’t the fight it might have been five years ago. But it was enough to settle the question that boxing fans had asked for years — who would win the big welterweight matchup of the best fighters of their time.

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Boxing:फ्लॉयड मेवेदर ने मैनी पैक्वे को हराकर जीती 'फाइट ऑफ द सेंचुरी'

मेवेदर ने पैक्वे को हराया।

लास वेगस- अमेरिका के लास वेगस में हुई सदी की सबसे बड़ी बॉक्सिंग फाइट अमेरिकी बॉक्सर फ्लॉयड मेवेदर ने जीत ली है। उन्होंने कड़े मुकाबले में फिलीपींस के बॉक्सर मैनी पैक्वे को हराकर यह मैच अपने नाम किया।

इस मुकाबले को 118-110, 116-112 और 116-112 से जीतकर फ्लॉयड मेवेदर एक तरह से सदी के सबसे बड़े खिलाड़ी बन गए हैं। अमेरिका के अरबपति बॉक्सर फ्लॉयड पिछले 47 मैचों से लगातार जीत रहे थे। इस मैच में भी उन्होंने शानदार प्रदर्शन किया और राइवल प्लेयर के शानदार प्रदर्शन के बावजूद जीत हासिल की।

खास बात यह है कि इस मुकाबले के लिए दोनों बॉक्सर्स को मिलने वाली रकम पहले से ही तय थी। दोनों खिलाड़ियों के जीतने या हारने से उन्हें मिलने वाली ईनामी राशि पर असर नहीं पड़ा। बस मैच जीतने पर मेवेदर को एक बेल्ट मिली, जिसमें 6.34 करोड़ रुपये के हीरे जड़े हैं।

इस मैच से मेवेदर को करीब 9.50 अरब रुपये, जबकि पैक्वे को 6.33 अरब रुपये मिले हैं। मुकाबले में पैक्वे के शॉर्ट्स (ट्रंक्स) पर आधा दर्जन कंपनियों के लोगो लगे थे। इन लोगो वगैरह से पैक्वे ने 15.83 करोड़ रुपये की कमाई की है।
मैच में हार-जीत का असर उन लोगों को पड़ा, जिन्होंने मैच पर सट्टा लगाया था। करीब 20 हजार करोड़ रुपये का सट्टा इस मैच पर लगा हुआ था। अमेरिका के लास वेगस शहर के MGM ग्रैंड अरीना में हुई इस फाइट को 16 हजार से ज्यादा लोगों ने देखा, जिसमें कई सिलेब्रिटीज़ भी शामिल थीं।

मैनी पैक्वे अगर यह मैच जीतते, तो वह मेवेदर को हराने वाले दुनिया के पहले बॉक्सर बन जाते। इस मुकाबले से दोनों बॉक्सर्स की आय में अरबों का इजाफा हो गया है। मुकाबले को लेकर फैंस में इतना उत्साह था कि मैच के 500 टिकट जो आम पब्लिक के लिए रखे गए थे, वे महज 60 सेकंड्स में बिक गए थे।

Boxing:Floyd Mayweather beats Manny Pacquiao to unify welterweight titles

Floyd Mayweather Jr. throws a punch at Manny Pacquiao during their welterweight unification championship bout

LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather cemented his status as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world with a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao as the "Fight of the Century" failed to live up to the hype on Saturday.

Scattered boos rang out around the crowd of 17,000 in the MGM Grand after Mayweather comfortably outboxed his Filipino rival to frustrate hopes of a full-blooded slugfest.

The 38-year-old Mayweather (48-0, 26 KOs) retained his WBC and WBA welterweight titles and seized Pacquiao's WBO belt by winning the fight on all three of the judges' scorecards.

Mayweather received scores of 116-112 from two judges. The third judge scored it 118-110.

But when the results were announced the pro-Pacquiao crowd booed lustily and tried to drown out Mayweather's post-fight comments over the public address system.

Filipino star Pacquiao suffered the sixth loss of his career to go with 57 victories and two draws.

The fight is widely believed to be the most lucrative in boxing history with revenues of $400 million.

Pacquiao was the aggressor, pressing action from the first round and was able to land some big lefts on Mayweather's chin, especially in the final seconds of the early rounds.

But ultimately Pacquiao wasn't able to keep up his frenzied early pace for all 12 rounds and Mayweather, who was the bigger of the two fighters, managed to slip in counterpunches and hard right hands that stopped the Filipino in his tracks.

Mayweather reiterated after Saturday's super fight that he would retire after his next fight in September which will fulfill his six-fight contract to Showtime Sports.

"My last fight is in September. I'll do that and I will hang it up," said Mayweather, estimated to have earned $200 million.

Pacquiao meanwhile insisted he thought he had won.

"I thought I won the fight. He didn't do nothing," he said.

The entrance of the fighters to the ring was delayed about 45 minutes because of problems with the heavy demand for pay-per-view telecast and the providers ability to distribute it.

Some of the biggest names in Hollywood, entertainment and sports were in attendance, including director Clint Eastwood, actors Robert De Niro, Jon Voight, Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper, musician Sting, former NBA star Magic Johnson, actress Claire Danes and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who visited Pacquiao in his dressing room before the fight.

Only a lucky few had tickets to the super fight but thousands more milled around the outside of the Grand Garden arena and in the hotel's casino.


Floyd Mayweather Jr. reacts after defeating Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Before the fight started, the downstairs lobby of the Grand Garden was crowded with people standing about, taking pictures and hoping to catch a glimpse of a celebrity coming in or out of one of the VIP rooms.

Mayweather made a grand entrance befitting of his superstar status. He was accompanied by his "The Money Team" which includes his father/trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr.

But Pacquiao arrived first to the ring, smiling relentlessly and even taking a selfie with long-time trainer Freddie Roach during his entrance.