By Edward Chaykovsky
Floyd “Money” Mayweather (46-0, 26 KOs) says the first fight with Marcos “El Chino” Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) was a one-sided affair. Mayweather won a twelve round majority decision. One judge scored a 114-114 draw, while two others had scores of 116-112 and 117-111 for Mayweather.
A rematch is taking place, for Mayweather's WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight titles, on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather says the only reason he agreed to a rematch is because "the fans demanded it."
Mayweather felt he won at least nine rounds of the first fight, calling the contest "a shutout."
"Well, I think nine rounds to three rounds is a shutout. Whoever is on the phone right now I'm pretty sure you can go to YouTube and watch the fight," Mayweather said. "Just look at the fight. The fight is not close. But he came out, he won the first round, I won the second round, he won the third and the fourth, and from the fifth on he lost every round."
"So, like I said before, I'm going to go out there and I guess get a knockout, win twelve rounds, and look impressive, but also be exciting."
Mayweather then broke down the patter of the first match.
"If I could just recall, I won the second round. He won the first one, but I won the second round, and he won probably the third and fourth, because I know one of those I got headbutted and couldn't see; I was just mainly in survival mode until I got back to my corner to Rafael, the great cutman, Rafael Garcia. So I gave [Maidana] three rounds," Mayweather said.
