Mayweather-Berto replay + All Access epilogue this Saturday

By Boxing News - 09/14/2015 - Comments

1-IMG_1941By Dan Ambrose: For boxing fans who didn’t get a chance to see the interesting High Stakes: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) vs. Andre Berto (30-4, 23 KOs) fight card last Saturday night on Showtime pay-per-view, the replay will be shown this Saturday night on Showtime Sports at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.

Fans will get to see Mayweather-Berto along with the co-feature bout between WBC super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez and challenger Orlando Salido. This fight was very exciting, but the results were less than pleasing with the three judges ruling the fight a draw.

Salido appeared to win a clear decision, but the outcome was fouled up by bizarre scoring that gave many rounds to Martinez in rounds that appeared to be really one-sided. It was just very odd scoring, and it makes you wonder whether the judges got confused which fighters were which.

Along with the High Stakes Mayweather vs. Berto rematch, fans will get the chance to see the epilogue episode of All Access that will come on after the fight card.

Mayweather won the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 120-108, 117-111 and 118-110. Berto, 32, tried his best, but he didn’t have the size, hand speed, punching power, mobility, youth, work rate or overall talent to get the job done.

About the best that Berto could do was land a handful of hard left hooks. I think he landed three good shots in the entire fight. The rest of the punches were glancing blows that were partially deflected by Mayweather’s gloves.

Virgil Hunter: The media shouldn’t criticize Mayweather-Berto fight

Virgil Hunter, the trainer for former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (30-4, 23 KOs) thinks it’s wrong that the media and fans were criticizing the Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) vs. Berto fight from last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hunter feels that if fans criticized the fight then they weren’t real fans. As for the sports writers, Hunter believes that their job is to promote the sport of boxing father than criticize fights or fighters.

“If you’re going to come and report on the fight, you shouldn’t criticize the fight,” Hunter said to Fighthype. “If you’re a fan and you’re criticizing the game, then you’re not a real boxing fan. You’re not going to come to a church and criticize a church. You’re not going to come to a football game and criticize a football game. If you’re getting paid by a sport then you shouldn’t criticize it. If you’re going to come to the fight, you’re going to report on the fight, then you’re job as a writer is to promote the fight, I believe. Everybody should be promoting the sport.”

It’s unclear when Hunter became the judge of how sports writers and fans should conduct themselves. I think Hunter needs to go back and read boxing articles from years and years ago, because sports writers have criticizing fights for ages now. Everything and everyone gets critiqued.

It doesn’t matter if it’s related to sports, modeling, automobiles or high tech. That’s just the way it’s always been, and it’s not going to change just because Hunter thinks people shouldn’t take shots at the Mayweather-Berto fight. There was plenty to talk about with that fight because it was such a dud.

Hunter really needs to start from the ground up with Berto if he wants to turn his career around. Berto fought like an amateur last Saturday, and it’s hard to tell what Hunter has been teaching him all this time because Berto looked like he was fighting for the first time as a pro. There was no head movement, no angles, and no adjustments that he made.



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