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.

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, billed as ''Pretty Risky'', was a boxing match for the

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and ''The Ring''

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titles. The bout was held on November 4, 2006, at the

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. The event also featured

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vs.

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for the

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title. Floyd Mayweather won this bout by a unanimous decision.

Background

Prior to the bout, Mayweather held the

welterweight title. Mayweather was slated to fight the

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welterweight champion Antonio Margarito in a

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but turned down the prospective fight as he and then-promoter, Bob Arum, disagreed on the prize purse. This led to Mayweather buying out his contract under

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. Mayweather expressed a desire to fight then-WBC super welterweight champion

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and so Mayweather relinquished his IBF welterweight title in anticipation of the mega bout. Subsequently, the vacant IBF welterweight title was won by

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. However, the fight would not materialize until after May 5 of the following year, thus Mayweather opted to fight Carlos Baldomir for his WBC and ''The Ring'' welterweight titles.

Fight earnings

325,000 pay-per-view buys, $16.3 million in television revenue.
ESPN. Retrieved on 2011-12-14

References

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