Mayweather Farce: Nights Like Tonight Are Why I Do This Blog

Now, after a walk, I get to explain even more clearly as to why I think this was an entirely pre-arranged farce, and everybody -- everybody who was not a Mayweather fan or a member of his Money Team...

• Everybody who bought a ticket, either at the MGM Grand or for a closed-circuit if they exist...
• Everybody who paid the inflated hotel room rates
• Everybody who bought the fight on pay-per-view
• Everybody who bought official merchandise that the MGM Grand weeks in advance of the fight
• Everybody who bet on the fight, especially if you bet on Alvarez...

You...

Idiots...

Got...

Taken.

The entire fight, everything around it, and everything coming from it, was scripted, choereographed, and rigged.

Now, I started saying this around round 7.  I've seen it time and again.  If Mayweather is as good as presented, there's no point having him box anyone -- he would be the Greatest Fighter of All-Time and could probably pull what Roy Jones Jr. did and win at basically ANY higher weight (including beating at least one Klistchko at heavyweight) for the title.

There would also be no point in ever putting him in the ring again, for whatever price.

So he basically finds guys, signs the fights, then gets in touch with them and reminds them just how big Floyd Mayweather and The Money Team are...

And if you don't think threats aren't part of it -- son, you don't know Vegas very well, do you?

As one example:  Legal sports betting is only about 2-3 % of all sports betting.  Much of it is underground.  Why do you think we had stories like that Incarcerated Bob one from several months back?

Anyhow:  I'm ranting, raving -- I legitimately despise Mayweather as a person. -- and then the decision comes out.

To me, it revealed everything...

USA Today's blogger scored the bout 118-110 (all for Mayweather).
Dan Rafael on ESPN scored the bout a clean shutout at 120-108.
Former world champion Ricky Hatton scored the bout 118-112 -- 8 rounds Mayweather, 2 Alvarez, 2 even
FOX Sports scored the bout 117-111
The UK Guardian's blogger on the fight scored it 118-113
Martin Domin of the Daily Mail agreed with Rafael, a shutout.
Case Keefer of the Las Vegas Sun:  119-109
Kevin Iole, the Yahoo! Sports boxing analyst, a shutout.

I later saw a replay, and scored it 120-110, giving the first and last rounds as even because nothing happened.

The point being that no one at the fight (this being just a representative sample), other than two of the judges, gave Alvarez more than 3 rounds.

Here are the actual scorecards:

Craig Metcalf scored the bout 117-111, giving Alvarez rounds 2, 10, and 12.

That's actually reasonable.  At first glance of at least the bloggers, I thought Alvarez might well have won round 2, and Mayweather gave him round 12 and possibly took off one more round for the first two minutes before trying to come back.

Dave Moretti scored the bout 116-112, giving Alvarez rounds 3, 9, 11, and 12.

Basically, Moretti is saying that Mayweather basically knew he'd won and stopped boxing.

But the inexplicable one, and, again, it's C.J. Ross of the Pacquiao-Bradley debacle...

She had the fight a 114-114 draw, six rounds apiece.

She had Alvarez winning rounds 1, 3, 8, 9, 11, and 12.

She actually gave Alvarez four of the last five rounds for a draw.

J'accuse...

My accusation is simple:  These would've been the scores, regardless of how the fight went...

Basically, adjusting for knockdowns and fouls, it wouldn't have mattered if Alvarez kicked Mayweather's ass all over the ring.

As long as Floyd Mayweather made it out of round 12:  it would've been 117-111 and 116-112 for Mayweather, and a 114-114 draw.

You suckers got duped.