{"id":104755,"date":"2025-08-29T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104755\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:39:11","slug":"floyd-mayweather-decided-on-his-final-opponent-just-hours-after-blockbuster-win-over-manny-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104755\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather decided on his final opponent just hours after blockbuster win over Manny Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Floyd Mayweather retired with a record of 50-0 after his comeback fight against Conor McGregor, but his original final foe was decided just hours after the biggest win of his career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/floyd-mayweather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> retired with a perfect undefeated record against an out-of-his-depth McGregor, but just two fights before saw \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather finally face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/manny-pacquiao\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> after fans pleaded for the mega-fight for years.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some years too late, Mayweather vs Pacquiao didn\u2019t quite deliver what it potentially could have, though Mayweather did pick up a career-defining win against the Filipino legend.<\/p>\n<p>Though the win was a great day for \u2018Money\u2019, it is a testament to his mindset that he had already decided who would be next just a couple hours after the fight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-472121374-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"Manny Pacquiao watches as Manny Pacquiao misses a right hand\" class=\"wp-image-9739\" \/>Photo credit should read JOHN GURZINSKI\/AFP via Getty ImagesAndre Berto revealed Floyd Mayweather knew he would be next hours after Pacquiao win<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Andre Ward, Andre Berto, Mayweather\u2019s original final foe, revealed that the fight had been all but made just a couple of hours after Mayweather\u2019s win over Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>Berto said, \u201cNot even three hours after the fight, not even two to three hours after the fight, Ronnie run up on me \u2013 \u2018Hey Bert, man, you better get ready.\u2019 I said \u2018Get ready for what?\u2019 \u2018Man, Floyd said he gone fight you next.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, stating that Ronnie, a friend of Mayweather\u2019s, had said, \u201cI just left the champ\u2019s house, Bert he fighting you next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berto was puzzled by Mayweather\u2019s mindset in that moment, \u201cThis man just got finished making a hundred million, in his hand, guaranteed, fighting a big fight of his life, and he say he gone fight me next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair eventually did fight, and Mayweather defeated Berto by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed after the fight, \u201cMy career is over. It\u2019s official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Floyd Mayweather\u2019s toughest test was a journeyman in 2000<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Mayweather was already 23-0 as a pro, and entered the ring against 22-16-4 Emanuel Augustus.<\/p>\n<p>Augustus\u2019 record was a deceptive one, as he fought in an extremely unconventional manner, which eventually landed him the nickname \u2018The Drunken Puppet-master.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Years on from their fight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/floyd-mayweather-was-given-toughest-test-of-his-legendary-career-by-38-34-journeyman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayweather would make the bold claim that Augustus was his toughest opponent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel Augustus\u2019 career never amounted to much aside from his close shave with success against Micky Ward, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/the-drunken-master-journeyman-who-saved-ray-oliveiras-life-but-ended-his-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus did once save his opponent\u2019s life<\/a>, and left behind a legacy of an unconventional style on an unconventional man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather retired with a record of 50-0 after his comeback fight against Conor McGregor, but his original&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,30209,708,82],"class_list":["post-104755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-floyd-mayweather","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}