Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto

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High Stakes
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Date September 12, 2015
Location MGM Grand Garden Arena
Title(s) on the line WBA (Super) super welterweight championship.
WBC and The Ring welterweight championships.
United States Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. United States Andre Berto
Money The Beast
Tale of the tape
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. From Winter Haven, Florida, U.S.
48–0–0 (26 KO) Pre-fight record 30–3-0 (23 KO)
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Orthodox Style Orthodox
WBA (Super) and WBC super welterweight champion.
WBC and The Ring welterweight champion.
The Ring No. 1 ranked pound for pound and No. 1 ranked welterweight.
Former The Ring junior middleweight champion.
Former WBO welterweight champion.		 Recognition Interim WBA welterweight champion.
Former WBC and IBF welterweight champion.
Result Mayweather Jr. wins by unanimous decision

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto, billed as "High Stakes", was a professional boxing fight, contested for the welterweight and super welterweight championships. 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][6]

Fight card

Weight Class vs. Method Round Time Notes
Welterweight United States Floyd Mayweather Jr. (c) def. United States Andre Berto UD 12/12
Super Middleweight Sweden Badou Jack (c) def. United Kingdom George Groves SD 12/12
Super Featherweight Puerto Rico Román Martínez (c) draws Mexico Orlando Salido SD 12/12
Super Welterweight United States Vanes Martirosyan def. United States Ishe Smith MD 10/10
Super Featherweight Puerto Rico Jonathan Oquendo def. Mexico Jhonny González MD 10/10
Middleweight United States Christopher Pearson def. Canada Janks Trotter TKO 7/10
Super Middleweight Romania Ronald Gavril def. United States Scott Sigmon RTD 8/10
Welterweight United Kingdom Ashley Theophane def. United States Steve Upsher Chambers UD 10/10

Broadcast

The telecast of the fight was televised via Showtime PPV, with its price set at US$64.99. For the first time in Showtime history, viewers will also be able to purchase and watch the PPV online through the CBS website; those who purchase the fight online also received a free 3-month subscription to CBS All Access. The move to offer the fight online by official means was considered to be in response to the unauthorized redistribution of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.[7]

Early estimates reported the number of PPV buys for the fight to be between 400,000 to 550,000, which is to be the lowest for a Mayweather fight in almost a decade.[8]

References

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