Floyd Mayweather Jr. won a 12-round unanimous decision Saturday night over Marcos Maidana in their welterweight title fight.
The fight was a contrast to their first bout in May, when Maidana roughed Mayweather up in a close fight.
Two ringside judges scored it 116-111 for Mayweather, while the third had it 115-112. Still, for most of the fight, Mayweather kept him at a distance, circling around and landing left jabs and hooks, then scampering out of the way before Maidana could respond.
Punch stats showed Maidana throwing far more punches (572-326) while Mayweather landed more (166-128).
“I do have some bumps and bruises,” Mayweather said. “But I listened to my dad (trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr.) who always said hit and not get hit. That’s the way you last in this sport.”
The highlight of the fight came when it was held up momentarily in the eighth round when Mayweather said that Maidana bit him on the wrist while the two were tied up. Maidana was then penalized for tripping Mayweather in the 10th round.
Maidana would later be penalized a point for tackling Mayweather as he tried desperately to find defeat the champ.
By the end of the ninth round, though, Maidana was so out of sorts he went to the wrong corner when the bell rang.
“I thought I won the fight,” Maidana said. (Funny -ish)
Mayweather earned at least $32 million for the rematch, bringing his total purses to more than $100 million in the last year. Though he wasn’t marked up, he was upset over the alleged bite to the wrist.
“We were tangled in the center of the ring and I didn’t realize what it was. Then I saw that he bit me,” Mayweather said. “After the eighth round my fingers were numb, I couldn’t use my left hand.”
Maidana denied he bit Mayweather.
“How can he say I bit the glove with my mouthpiece?” Maidana asked. “I’m not a dog.”
My two-cents: Overall, for any fight lovers, this match was pretty uneventful with the exception of the bite.
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