Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto
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Date | September 12, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title(s) on the line | WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring welterweight titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mayweather Jr. wins via 12-round unanimous decision (118-110, 117-111, 120-108) |
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto, billed as High Stakes, was a professional boxing fight, contested for the welterweight championship. The bout was held on September 12, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Showtime PPV[1] Mayweather Jr. confirmed his retirement after the bout.[2]
Mayweather dominated the fight, landing an impressive 56% [232/410] punches thrown, and 67% of power punches [132/196] compared to Berto's underwhelming number of 16% [83/495] punches landed and 22% [39/177] of power punches thrown.[3] Mayweather won the fight, 120-108, 118-110 and 117-111.[4][5]
Fight card
Weight Class | vs. | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
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Welterweight | Floyd Mayweather Jr. (c) | def. | Andre Berto | UD | 12/12 | Note 1 | ||
Super Middleweight | Badou Jack (c) | def. | George Groves | SD | 12/12 | Note 2 | ||
Super Featherweight | Román Martínez (c) | vs | Orlando Salido | SD | 12/12 | Note 3 | ||
Super Welterweight | Vanes Martirosyan | def. | Ishe Smith | MD | 10/10 | |||
Super Featherweight | Jonathan Oquendo | def. | Jhonny González | MD | 10/10 | |||
Middleweight | Christopher Pearson | def. | Janks Trotter | TKO | 7/10 | |||
Super Middleweight | Ronald Gavril | def. | Scott Sigmon | RTD | 8/10 | |||
Welterweight | Ashley Theophane | def. | Steve Upsher Chambers | UD | 10/10 | |||
Lightweight | Gervonta Davis | def. | Recky Dulay | TKO | 1/6 | |||
Welterweight | Sanjarbek Rakhmanov | def. | Farkhad Sharipov | UD | 6/6 | |||
Super Lightweight | Trakwon Pettis | def. | Devonte Seay | TKO | 1/4 |
^Note 1 for WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring welterweight titles
^Note 2 For WBC super middleweight title
^Note 3 For WBO super featherweight title
Broadcast
The telecast of the fight was televised via
Estimates reported the number of PPV buys for the fight to be around 400,000, which was the lowest for a Mayweather fight in almost a decade.[7]
References
- ^ "Mayweather officially fighting Andre Berto". TMZ.com. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
- ^ "Ellerbe confirms Mayweather will be retiring after Berto".
- ^ Loop, Nate. "Results and Punch Stats from Mayweather vs. Berto". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather 'ends career' undefeated after one-sided victory over Andre Berto". Guardian. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ "Floyd Mayweather (49-0) decisions Andre Berto in one-sided send-off". ESPN. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ "CBS to Live Stream Showtime's Mayweather-Berto Fight". Variety. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "The pay per view numbers for Mayweather-Berto are not good". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 18 September 2015.