Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (''né'' Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He currently owns a team in the NASCAR Cup Series named The Money Team Racing. As a professional boxer he competed b ...

vs.

Andre Berto Andre Michael Berto (born September 7, 1983) is a professional boxer who holds dual American and Haitian citizenship. He is a two-time former welterweight world champion, having held the WBC and IBF titles between 2008 and 2011, as well as the ...

, billed as ''High Stakes'', was a professional boxing fight, contested for the

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championship. The bout was held on September 12, 2015 at the

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on Showtime PPV Mayweather Jr. confirmed his retirement after the bout. Mayweather dominated the fight, landing an impressive 56% 32/410punches thrown, and 67% of power punches 32/196compared to Berto's underwhelming number of 16% 3/495punches landed and 22% 9/177of power punches thrown. Mayweather won the fight, 120-108, 118-110 and 117-111.

Fight card

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

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website; those who purchase the fight online also received a free 3-month subscription to

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. 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

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