Marcos Maidana gave Floyd Mayweather jr. his best fight in a long, long time… he’s a tough cookie! BUT, it still wasn’t enough to stop the world’s BEST welterweight from taking his 45-0 record to 46! Mayweather promised to fight different this fight and he did, we never seen Mayweather on the ropes as much as he was this fight.
“I wanted to give the fans an exciting fight. Normally I box, I move, I blow the other guy out,” Mayweather said in the ring after the fight.”
Maidana forced Mayweather to fight from close range for the first half of the fight but Mayweather was able to overcome Maidana‘s wild style of boxing including a series of headbutts and blows to the nuts! Mayweather even admitted that he couldn’t see for the next two rounds aftter the head but . However, he persevered and still managed to land some hard punches on Maidana to win the majority decision. Way to go champ! Watch Mayweather and Maidana in action below! photo credit: Eric Jamison/AP
yayyy he did it again #tmt