Floyd Mayweather confirms WBC superwelter championships by knocking on the tenth round for technical co-driver Conor McGregor, the MMA and UFC phenomenon, the NBA of mixed martial arts.
The unusual confrontation between the multiple world champion boxer and the mixed martial arts fighter, in his first fight, lasted longer and was more heated than many expected. The Irishman managed to keep up with the 40-year-old American in the first three rounds, who had hung up his gloves two years ago, but succumbed under the blows of the boxer towards the end of the match.
McGregor had the T-Mobile Arena crowd on his side, Mayweather overcame a difficult start and gradually took control of the match until he dominated the opponent in the tenth round, inflicting numerous blows on the opponent and chasing him into the ring, until the referee, Robert Byrd, did not save the Irishman by putting an end to the dispute.
Mayweather thus becomes the best boxer ever for the statistics, with that record from 50-0 that makes him overcome a myth like Rocky Marciano.
In the match of the century, in addition to the $ 300 million bag for boxers, the American also takes home the "Money Belt", the belt made for the occasion by the World Boxing Council, made up of 3.360 diamonds, 600 sapphires, 300 emeralds and 1.5 kg of gold, all wrapped in a precious crocodile skin.
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