By Gavin “Neds” O’Connor: WBA/WBC 147 pound champion Floyd Mayweather Jr extended his unbeaten run to 47-0 last Saturday night in retaining his WBA and WBC welterweight titles with a 12 round unanimous points decision win against Argentinian Marcos Maidana (35-5, 31 KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada.
The main talking points of the fight where sadly negative and for all the wrong reasons with accusations of foul play excessive holding and questionable calls and tactics from the 3rd man in the ring referee Kenny Bayless. Add to this a pretty lackluster performance from both fighters it was a fight to remember for all the wrong reasons and not the right ones and will not be high on many boxing fans lists of fights to re-watch any time soon.
Mayweather won the fight on points and rightly so with the 3 judges scoring the bout 116-111 116-111 and 115- 112, which was a fair reflection of the nights proceedings. In the post press interviews, Mayweather, the pound 4 pound #1, was not surprisingly asked the inevitable Manny Pacquiao questions understandable if not a little too soon
After the Maidana victory, Mayweather’s first order of business should be addressing (after a deserved break) the long overdue issue of defending his titles a 154lbs next or vacate the titles. As for the Pacquiao issue, Manny has the defence of his WBO title to oversee first in Macao, China on November 22 against the unbeaten Chris Algieri and can’t take it as a forgone conclusion that he’ll win that fight.
Will 2015 be the year the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight finally happens? Who knows if fight results go to plan and differences and issue can be ironed out it may just happen, but then again maybe like all boxing fans I hope team Pacquiao and team Mayweather keep in mind the mental well-being and future sanity of the fans and deliver the mega fight.
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