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Mayweather Jr. wins by majority decision in 12 rounds (117–111, 116–112, 114–114) Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana , billed as The Moment , was a professional boxing match contested on May 3, 2014, for the WBA , WBC , and The Ring welterweight championship.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II, billed as Mayhem, was a professional boxing match contested on on September 13, 2014, for the WBC light middleweight title and the WBA, WBC, and The Ring welterweight championship.
Mayweather explained why he chose Maidana, "Marcos Maidana's last performance immediately brought him to my attention. He is an extremely skilled fighter who brings knockout danger to the ring. I think this is a great fight for me and he deserves the opportunity to see if he can do what 45 others have tried to do before him – beat me."
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Though Mayweather had previously vowed after his pay-per-view debut against Gatti that he would fight exclusively on pay-per-view going forward, his fight against Mitchell was aired on a standard episode of HBO World Championship Boxing. This would be Mayweather's final non-pay-per-view fight. [6]
The then-current South African president Thabo Mbeki would write a note to N'dou in which he expressed "full confidence" that N'dou would put forth a performance that would make all South Africans proud and defeat Mayweather. When Mayweather heard of N'dou's meeting with Mandela he quipped "Nelson Mandela's a great man, he's big in America, but ...
Mayweather was given a one-year suspended sentence, ordered to undergo counseling and was inactive for the remainder of the year. [5] In December, it was announced that Mayweather would return to boxing to face little-known Puerto Rican fighter Henry Bruseles on January 22 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight.