Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana
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Date | May 3, 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title(s) on the line | WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring welterweight titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mayweather Jr. wins via 12-round majority decision (114-114, 117-111, 116-112) |
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana, billed as The Moment, was a boxing welterweight championship fight. It was held on May 3, 2014 in the MGM Grand Garden Arena at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, and broadcast on Showtime PPV.
Mayweather won the fight in a highly contested 12-round fight via majority decision. Judge Michael Pernick scored the fight 114–114, a draw. Judge Dave Moretti had it 116–112, and Burt A. Clements scored it 117–111.
The two fought again later that year in Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II, where Mayweather won again.
Fight card
[edit]Weight Class | vs. | Method | Round | Time | Notes | ||||
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Welterweight | ![]() |
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MD | 12/12 | Note 1 | |||
Welterweight | ![]() |
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UD | 12/12 | ||||
Light welterweight | ![]() |
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UD | 10/10 | ||||
Super middleweight | ![]() |
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UD | 10/10 | ||||
Middleweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 3/8 | ||||
Light welterweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 3/8 | ||||
Welterweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 4/8 | ||||
Cruiserweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 5/6 | ||||
Super middleweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 2/6 | ||||
Welterweight | ![]() |
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TKO | 3/4 |
^Note 1 For WBC Welterweight, WBA Welterweight title & The Ring Welterweight titles.
Reception
[edit]The fight was sold out, grossing US$15 million at the live gate, the fourth highest of any boxing event in Las Vegas.[1] It sold an estimated 900,000 buys on pay-per-view,[2] the year's highest-selling PPV up until May 2014, grossing an estimated $63 million in pay-per-view revenue, bringing the event's total revenue to an estimated $78 million.[1]
Fight purses
[edit]Guaranteed fight purses: Over $37 million total (including most expensive undercard in pay-per-view history, as of May 2014)[1]
- Headline
- Floyd Mayweather ($32,000,000) vs. Marcos Maidana ($1,500,000)[3]
- Undercard
- Amir Khan ($1,500,000) vs. Luis Collazo ($300,000)[3]
- Adrien Broner ($500,000) vs. Carlos Molina ($100,000)[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mayweather-Maidana: Highest Selling PPV Of 2014, But…". BoxingScene. 19 May 2014.
- ^ "Mayweather-Maidana fight generates less than 1 million pay per view buys". Sports Illustrated. May 29, 2014.
- ^ a b "Floyd Mayweather's base purse $32 million for fighting Marcos Maidana". MLive. 30 April 2014.
- ^ "Purse Payouts Mayweather-Maidana Undercard". TSM Plug. Retrieved 3 May 2014.