Floyd Mayweather's easy pay day - this final fight is simply not worth watching
'Money' bout against mediocre Andre Berto is an anti-climactic end to his career
So, this is it for Floyd Mayweather Jnr, or so they say.
Step up now because it's your last chance to see Money May in the ring. Buy those ringside tickets or find 75 bucks somewhere that you didn't spend on Ronda Rousey to watch Mayweather and Andre Berto dance about from the comfort of your own living room.
The fighter who has made himself insanely rich by conning people into paying to watch him on TV is at it again. The promise this time is that it's his last time, or at least until Mayweather figures there are still enough rubes out there who will buy another one next spring.
This should have been a fight on free TV, but there's a few extra million to be squeezed out on pay-per-view and greed got in the way
It wasn't enough to pocket US$220 million for a fight against Manny Pacquiao that could never live up to the hype that preceded it. Mayweather has jets to fuel and cars to buy and, really, who couldn't use another US$30 million or so?
This could have been a fight on free TV, something of a payback for those who felt shortchanged for the US$100 they paid to watch the snoozer against a passive Pacquiao. This should have been a fight on free TV, but there's a few extra million to be squeezed out on pay-per-view and greed got in the way.
At least those buying the Pacquiao fight had an excuse. They thought Pacquiao legitimately had a chance, ignoring the fact that his skills had deteriorated badly in the five years he had been chasing Mayweather.
