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High Stakes

Date	September 12, 2015
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
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. Andre Berto Nickname Money The Beast Hometown Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Winter Haven, Florida, U.S. Pre-fight record 48–0 (26 KO) 30–3 (23 KO) Age 38 years, 6 months 32 years Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (169 cm) Weight 146 lb (66 kg) 145 lb (66 kg) Style Orthodox Orthodox Recognition WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring welterweight champion WBA (Super) and WBC super welterweight champion The Ring No. 1 ranked pound-for-pound fighter 5-division world champion WBA interim welterweight champion Former two-time welterweight champion
Result
Mayweather Jr. wins via 12-round unanimous decision (118-110, 117-111, 120-108)

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto, billed as High Stakes, was a professional boxing fight, contested for the welterweight championship. The bout was held on September 12, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Showtime PPV Mayweather Jr. confirmed his retirement after the bout.

Mayweather dominated the fight, landing an impressive 56% punches thrown, and 67% of power punches compared to Berto's underwhelming number of 16% punches landed and 22% of power punches thrown. Mayweather won the fight, 120-108, 118-110 and 117-111.

Fight card

Weight Class		vs.		Method	Round	Time	Notes
Welterweight	Floyd Mayweather Jr. (c)	def.	Andre Berto	UD	12/12
Super Middleweight	Badou Jack (c)	def.	George Groves	SD	12/12
Super Featherweight	Román Martínez (c)	vs	Orlando Salido	SD	12/12
Super Welterweight	Vanes Martirosyan	def.	Ishe Smith	MD	10/10
Super Featherweight	Jonathan Oquendo	def.	Jhonny González	MD	10/10
Middleweight	Christopher Pearson	def.	Janks Trotter	TKO	7/10
Super Middleweight	Ronald Gavril	def.	Scott Sigmon	RTD	8/10
Welterweight	Ashley Theophane	def.	Steve Upsher Chambers	UD	10/10
Lightweight	Gervonta Davis	def.	Recky Dulay	TKO	1/6
Welterweight	Sanjarbek Rakhmanov	def.	Farkhad Sharipov	UD	6/6
Super Lightweight	Trakwon Pettis	def.	Devonte Seay	TKO	1/4

^Note 1 for WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring welterweight titles
^Note 2 For WBC super middleweight title
^Note 3 For WBO super featherweight title

Broadcast

The telecast of the fight was televised via Showtime PPV, with its price set at US$64.99. For the first time in Showtime history, viewers were also able to purchase and watch the PPV online through the CBS website; those who purchase the fight online also received a free 3-month subscription to CBS All Access. The move to offer the fight online by official means was considered to be in response to the unauthorized redistribution of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.

Estimates reported the number of PPV buys for the fight to be around 400,000, which was the lowest for a Mayweather fight in almost a decade.

References

1. "Mayweather officially fighting Andre Berto". TMZ.com. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
2. "Ellerbe confirms Mayweather will be retiring after Berto".
3. Loop, Nate. "Results and Punch Stats from Mayweather vs. Berto". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
4. "Floyd Mayweather 'ends career' undefeated after one-sided victory over Andre Berto". Guardian. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
5. "Floyd Mayweather (49-0) decisions Andre Berto in one-sided send-off". ESPN. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
6. "CBS to Live Stream Showtime's Mayweather-Berto Fight". Variety. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
7. "The pay per view numbers for Mayweather-Berto are not good". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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