Mayweather v Guerrero Boxing

Floyd Mayweather v Robert Guerrero boxing bout will be on the cards on May 5th, 2013. This bout will happen at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and it is the first fight in a massive new pay deal for the eight time undefeated world champion, Mayweather. The American boxer, pound for pound the best and most expensive fighter in the world, penned a pay per view deal with Showtime and CBS which can see him fight up to six times in a 30 month period. With the nickname of “Money”, Mayweather has not been afraid of making his class in the sport of boxing count when it comes to raking in the green. It has followed him throughout his undefeated professional career, which stood at 43 fights at the start of 2013, 26 of them being knockouts.

Instead of just penning a deal for a massive purse, Mayweather has gone the pay per view route in a groundbreaking deal. His fights on average have already pulled in around one million sales per pay-per-view bout, and he will be taking his share of the revenues pulled in over the next six fights. Should he complete the deal of all six fights, then it will be the single biggest contract ever signed by an athlete. Just in the summer of 2012, Mayweather, over the space of two fights collected a whopping $85 million, knocking golfing legend Tiger Woods off the top of the Forbes Magazine list as the richest sports personality in the world. So the nickname for Mayweather is pretty fitting and now he has to pull at that where his mouth is and perform in the ring.

He will start this contract against Guerrero, who is no slouch himself. The Ghost is a former Super Featherweight world champion, and a former lightweight champion and a two time featherweight champion. The American, of Mexican descent will take a record of 31 wins from 35 professional fights into the ring with him against Mayweather, having ran off eight wins from his last eight fights. He has been a world champion in four different boxing weight classes and the southpaw could pose an awkward opponent for Mayweather. However, that won’t stop Mayweather hitting Las Vegas as the outright favourite for the WBC Welterweight title fight in May. The thing about the new deal is that Mayweather has put the pressure on, because a loss in this first of six potential fights could be costly.

People are naturally waiting for the undefeated champion to fall, and that is what will sell tickets. Seeing Mayweather scrap it out with Guerrero is not going to be top of many people's list, but as long as “Money” stays unbeaten it will attract. What punters really want to see is either a long overdue fight for Mayweather against Filipino star Manny Pacquiao or Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez. There has been a long standing rivalry with Pacquiao, but the two never got in the ring. With Pacquiao being beaten badly by Marquez at the end of last year, the promoters may have missed the boat in not getting a Mayweather v Pacquiao bout arranged earlier. If it happens, it may not be the fight that it once could have been.

But still it would draw an immense crowd, especially if Mayweather is still unbeaten at that point. But Juan Manuel Marquez, who lost in a unanimous decision to Mayweather back in 2009 could well be a more dangerous opponents and is readier for the fight and the title shot. But the Mayweather v Guerrero betting is where it will all start. Guerrero will be a long outside shot and bookmakers installed him as such as soon as the bout was announced. Three of Mayweather’s last four fights (all at the MGM Grand) have been by a unanimous decision, so it may be worth backing the bout to go the distance.

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