Las Vegas, NV (SportsNetwork.com) – Floyd Mayweather won two of the three judges to claim the unified WBC\/WBA Welterweight title in a 12-round match against Marcos Maidana on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Mayweather (46-0, 26 KOs) took two cards 117-111 and 116-112, with the other judge posting a score of 114-114 as he improved to 16-0 in fights that have gone to 12 rounds.<\/p>\n
Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) dominated the early rounds as he had Mayweather on the ropes much of the time, but it wasn’t enough in his first defense of his WBA title.<\/p>\n
The first several rounds featured Maidana throwing a lot of punches and keeping Mayweather along the ropes. He caught the undefeated champ with some overhand clubs and a few rights, with Mayweather occasionally countering with some rights and body shots.<\/p>\n
In the fourth round, an accidental headbutt opened a cut over Mayweather’s right eye, the first time he had ever been cut in a fight, and it seemed to bother him for the rest of the round.<\/p>\n
His corner team, though, was able to close the cut up and keep it from hampering him.<\/p>\n
Mayweather started to get going in the sixth round, as he was able to connect on a hard right, and a big inside right uppercut in the round, and followed that with a few more hard rights in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Maidana, who was talked to in a timeout by the ref during the third round for illegal shots, was again warned by the ref in the eighth round for another low blow.<\/p>\n
The ninth round saw Mayweather continue to keep Maidana at a distance, and was able to connect on a right cross and a quick combination to the body.<\/p>\n
In the 10th, Mayweather kept pushing Maidana back and hit the Argentinean with a big right to the head just before the bell.<\/p>\n
The last two rounds saw the boxers continue to spar without letting the big blows land before the final bell sounded.<\/p>\n
This was the third fight for Mayweather out of his 30-month, six-fight deal worth $200 million-plus that Mayweather signed with Showtime and its parent network CBS last February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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