By Mac Arnold
Black Eye Editor
Earlier this week I watched a replay of the Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos "El Chino" Maidana fight that unified the WBA-WBC welterweight titles on May 5.
I noted there was some moderate disbelief among the Showtime announcers, a co-worker in the sports department at a Midwest newspaper for which is my day job and other pundits at the decision for Mayweather.
Sorry, but for this long-time boxing aficionado, there wasn't any debate. I scored it 117-111, the same as one of the judges who saw it the same that night. The other two judges' tallies were 114-114 and 116-112.
This was after watching it for the second time on a nice HD screen. The first viewing came at work (oops) while squinting at a grainy bootleg site.
However, I saw enough that I determined Mayweather was dominant in the middle rounds. I would say from maybe the fifth round on until the 12th, which I scored for El Chino, the Money man countered well off the ropes against the Argentine boxer.
Yes, for sure, Maidana's thudding overhand rights to side and back of Mayweather's noggin looked like they were effective and most likely they were taking a toll but I think the cleaner punches were being registered by the pride of Grand Rapids.
As far as a rematch goes, eh. Not sure there is enough appeal in it, and there are many other deserving welters out there ... Shawn Porter comes to mind. Keith Thurman is another.
Of course, there's always Manny Pacquiao. But guess we shouldn't go there, or should we?
