By Daniel Clement: Last night Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) defeated WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision to capture his WBA 147 lb. title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Was Mayweather’s victory a controversial one? It was not. Was it a dirty fight that shown a lack of sportsmanship from Maidana? Yes it was in my view.
First let’s look into both fighters’ performances.
Maidana used a lot of moves that looked dirty in the fight. Usually such things would be frowned upon, but since Mayweather is involved, it seem that anything goes, which is not how it should be. From the very first rounds, we saw a lot of rabbit punches from Maidana, which appeared intentional.