Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET on Showtime pay-per-view, Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KO) will fight Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KO) for the WBC and WBA welterweight titles. Live stream the matchup online by clicking this link.
Mayweather has billed this bout as the last of his Hall of Fame career. A victory will push his record to 49-0, tying the record of former heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. It's hard to imagine Mayweather wouldn't get in the ring one more time so he can have a chance to break that mark, but he's insisting this is it.
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"I'm ready to hang it up and spend time with my children," Mayweather said. "Most fighters that are retired didn't have a choice."
Berto, meanwhile, is fighting to prove he even deserves this spotlight. When he was announced as Mayweather's opponent, most scoffed at the soft matchmaking on Mayweather's part. Berto is a former welterweight champion, but he's lost three of his last six fights.
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"Anybody that knows me has seen great things but at the same time they've seen me go through some real trials. What comes with that is a lot of hard work and perseverance. I felt like I went through what I went through for a reason. My time is now," Berto said.
Berto has promised to make the fight more entertaining than Mayweather's May 2 unanimous decision win over Manny Pacquiao. He believes he is physically more gifted than Pacquiao, and will disrupt Mayweather's defensive mastery.
"I think it's been a while since Floyd has fought somebody else with great speed and power like me - it's a rare combination and I feel I can probably offset a lot of things that he's doing. I'm really looking forward to interrupting anything that he's trying to do in the ring."
Prediction: Mayweather def. Berto by TKO (Round 11)
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