Dubai, UAE. In the main event of the show, the exhibition match was played by unbeaten American veterans: the legendary Floyd “Money” Mayweather amused the fans with a performance against his ex-sparring partner “Dangerous” Don Moore.
The battle proceeded at a leisurely pace. At first, both circled the ring and jabbed. Then Mayweather began to gradually build up the pace and increase the advantage. Moore tried to at least something to answer, but could not.
In the 6th three-minute period, Floyd decided to amuse the fans and, after the gong, began to dance with the ring girl. And then he even helped her with the sign-announcement of the round. In the final three minutes, Mayweather simply beat Dangerous, dropped him once with a blow to the body. And the veteran entertained as best he could: he worked for the camera and even answered commentators:
Floyd had to respond to the commentary team pic.twitter.com/ZLm0T1TyGJ
— Jason Williams (@jasoneg33) May 21, 2022
The score and the winner were not announced.
In another exhibition fight, Brazilian MMA fighters met: the legendary “Spider” Anderson Silva beat “Skulls” by Bruno Machado.
Silva looked much larger than his opponent, but did not try to somehow beat him up: he slowly put pressure, took his advantage due to the advantage in manual speed. A little more actively, the “Spider” earned at the end of the fight and even dropped the “Skull” – he did not have time to finish it off, the gong sounded.
The winner and the score were not announced, but Silva was expected to be much cooler.
One of the best representatives of women’s boxing Belgian Delphine Person (47-3, 19 KOs) snatched a difficult victory from the French
Elhem Mekhaled (15-1, 3 KOs), for which she received the title of WBC silver champion in lightweight (up to 61.2 kg).
Person fought with an aggressive first number, but her pressure was not as effective as usual, and her opponent’s counterattacks looked very solid. The fight went all the way. Judges score: 97-94, 97-93 and 96-94.
Person UD 10.
In the cruiserweight limit (up to 90.7 kg), the ex-conqueror of two divisions, the Swede Badu Jack (26-3-3, 16 KOs), for some reason, severely knocked out the veteran journiman
Honey Atiyo (17-6, 12 KOs) from Egypt.
The underdog missed a hard left hook and ended up on the canvas. I had to get medical help. Why are these fights necessary? Tin…
Jack KO 1.
Alhamdulillah! On to the next #TeamJack pic.twitter.com/0vloOLnDOA
— Badou Jack (@BadouJack) May 21, 2022