Floyd Mayweather Beats Conor McGregor In Superfight, Retires

Boxing Champion, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is now 50-0 as a professional, after scoring a 10th-round TKO victory when McGregor was unable to answer several huge shots to the head.

Though the first round was slow for Mayweather, as expected. McGregor landed a very, very nice counter left uppercut in that opening round that did some damage to Mayweather. McGregor showed some surprisingly strong counters in the second and third rounds as well, and was also warned for hammer fists to the back of the head by the referee.

In the fourth, Mayweather started to bring things back. He started landing big time with right straights and McGregor started to slow down. Mayweather took over with some huge shots and combos in the sixth and seventh rounds, landing far more powerful strikes.

Floyd Mayweather closes in on victory as the fight reaches its climax. Photograph: Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports

McGregor showed more life in the eighth round, landing some serious shots. It could have been his round, even, though Mayweather did land with the right straight plenty, and did some damage. In the ninth round, McGregor hurt Mayweather with an early body shot, but after recovering, Mayweather put together his most dominant round of the fight, peppering the tiring McGregor over and over with big shots.

In the 10th, Mayweather swarmed McGregor and the fight was stopped. Mayweather landed several unanswered shots and McGregor was stumbling around the ring, so it was a good stoppage. In an interview after the bout ended, Showtime’s Jim Gray asked Mayweather if he’d ever fight again, now that he’s 50-0 as a professional.

“Tonight was my last fight, for sure,” Mayweather said. He lauded McGregor as an opponent and said unequivocally that he wouldn’t return to the ring. There are good reasons for Mayweather to be done, though it’s not certain that he’ll stay away.

He’s already retired twice, after beating Ricky Hatton in 2007 and Manny Pacquiao in 2015. To whatever extent this is official, he’s now retired for a third time.

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor embrace following their fight. Photograph: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

McGregor, for his part, didn’t answer definitively when asked whether he’d box again. He’s a mixed martial artist by trade, and his bout with Mayweather was his first as a professional boxer. There’s a nonzero chance that we never see either man box again, though there’s also a chance we do. That uncertainty is just how they likely prefer it.