Floyd Mayweather Wins Unanimous Decision Against Cotto, Is Manny Pacquiao Next?

Floyd Mayweather Wins Unanimous Decision Against Cotto, Is Manny Pacquiao Next?

Fighting only a few weeks before he serves his three-month sentence in a county jail for domestic abuse, Mayweather found himself in a difficult boxing match Saturday night.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. bags the win with unanimous decision from judges over his opponent Miguel Cotto, who wouldn’t easily going to quit.

Mayweather used his speed and accuracy to take a unanimous decision over a game Cotto in a 154-pound title. But it wasn't an easy win, as Cotto landed some hard punches and kept attacking until the final bell.

"You're a hell of a champion," Mayweather told Cotto in the ring afterward. "You're the toughest guy I ever fought."

Unlike most of his fights, Mayweather engaged in some bruising exchanges he usually likes to avoid and got his nose bloodied.

Two judges scored the fight 117-111 and the third had it 118-110 giving the winner the unanimous decision.

In the last round, Mayweather landed his best punch of the night, a left uppercut that seemed to hurt Cotto. He followed that with several punches to the head wrapping up a decision that until the later rounds was in doubt.

The decision was wildly booed by the crowd at the MGM Grand arena, which cheered enthusiastically every time Cotto landed a punch.

Though Cotto seemed hurt several times during the fight, particularly in the 12th round, he was never down.

Mayweather, who was guaranteed $32 million, fought up to the last minute of all 12 rounds against the Puerto Rican champion.

The win gave Mayweather the 154-pound title held by Cotto, and assured him of still being a champion when he goes to jail June 1 for a sentence due to a domestic abuse case with his former girlfriend and their children; thus pushing the much-awaited Mayweather-Pacquiao fight into the dim backdrop.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Monday May 07 2012, 3:05 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0