FLOYD MAYWEATHER VS. ANDRE BERTO IS OFFICIAL ON CBS
By T Street Controversy, Real Combat Media Head Boxing Video Reporter
Las Vegas, NV (July 20th, 2015)– After previously serving as a stepping stone for others to land fights with Floyd Mayweather, it appears that Andre Berto is going to get his chance against the pound-for-pound king. Berto is reportedly set to face Mayweather on September 12, according to TMZ. TMZ spoke with Berto who told them, “It’s a pleasure and honor to be in this position and I’m looking forward to capitalizing on every moment of it”.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/20/floyd-mayweather-officially-fighting-andre-berto/#ixzz3gTs29HpW
The catch is that this won’t be a pay-per-view fight, as Mayweather (48-0, 26 KO) will instead face Berto (30-3, 23 KO) on CBS, bringing the biggest name in American boxing to network television. Mayweather could then go for 50-0 next year on CBS, rather than pay-per-view to break Marciano’s record in 2015
Mayweather, 38, last fought on May 2, beating Manny Pacquiao in a true mega-fight that shattered marks for pay-per-view buys, pay-per-view revenue, live gate revenue, and fighter payout. In any way the fight could break a money mark, it did. But the fight also did not perform well critically after the fact, and Team Mayweather could be looking for a way to give back, as it were. The amount of money that “Money” made for the Pacquiao fight was so above and beyond anything else that taking a relative pay cut to fight on CBS doesn’t really impact Mayweather as much as it may have even a year ago.
Berto, 31, had been in the mix for the fight. Amir Khan was thought to be the leading contender, but that could wait until next May, which might actually be better for Khan, who would have had to sandwich in a potentially rushed training camp after Ramadan to fight in September. Berto last fought on March 13, stopping Josesito Lopez in six rounds.
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