Mayweather Outpoints Maidana to Remain Unbeaten

{{Floyd Mayweather outpointed a game Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas to unify the welterweight division and remain unbeaten in 46 professional fights.}}

Mayweather, who is now the WBC and WBA champion, was the red hot favourite but Maidana showed tremendous commitment and dominated the early exchanges.

But having weathered the Argentine’s thunderous start, American Mayweather assumed control in the middle rounds.

One judge scored the fight 114-114, the other two 117-111 and 116-112.

“It was a tough, competitive fight,” said the 37-year-old Mayweather, who has now only stopped one opponent in seven years.

“I normally like to go out there and box and move. But he put pressure on me. I wanted to give the fans what they wanted to see so I stood and fought him.

“I couldn’t see for two rounds after the (accidental) head butt (in round four). After I could see again it didn’t bother me. That’s what champions do, they survive and adjust.”

Maidana, who hit Mayweather with more punches than anyone before, called for a rematch, saying: “I won the fight. He didn’t fight like a man. He never hurt me with a punch, he wasn’t that tough.”

While judge Michael Pernick’s card made it a majority rather than a unanimous decision, his verdict seemed greatly at odds with what had transpired.

And while Maidana insisted he had been cheated, five-weight world champion Mayweather was in a different class for most of the contest, landing with 54% of punches thrown.

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