From Las Vegas
The braggart backed it up. Floyd Mayweather Jr. came back in flamboyant fashion Saturday night, 21 months after he had left.
And it was as if he never had.
The Las Vegas boxer with the arrogant swagger and the fitting nicknames of "Money" and "Pretty Boy," destroyed a game but overmatched, Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico before a packed house of 13,116 in the MGM Grand Garden.
The decision was unanimous, the judges scoring it 118-109, 120-107 and 119-108.
That outcome was fairly obvious after the second round, when Mayweather caught Marquez with a left hook that put him down. While not out, Marquez -- and everybody else in the place -- started to realize that Mayweather was going to dominate.
In the end, lots of people spent lots of money to witness the obvious. Mayweather was bigger, stronger, faster and even ended up prettier. He had nary a mark on his face. Marquez's was a mess.
The questions had been whether Mayweather had any rust from his nearly two-year sabbatical and whether the much-smaller Marquez could come up the equivalent of four weight classes and retain his speed.read more
