Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s nickname is "Money" for a good reason. He's practically made of cash. And this weekend, the boxer's bout with long-time rival Manny Pacquiao is set to add another $200 million to his already hefty bank account. 

That is in addition to the more than $105 million the flamboyant boxing legend made in 2014. 

And boy, does he know how to spend it! 

Earlier this year, Money Mayweather tweeted out a photo of his jet, a collection of exotic cars, and the words "Welcome to my world."

 For those who are curious, here's a breakdown of everything in Money's photo — and their approximate values:

A. Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano — $350,000

B. Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet —  $170,000

C. Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 — $400,000

D. Ferrari 458 Italia Spider — $260,000

E. Floyd "Money" Mayweather — net worth est. $280 million.

F.  Ferrari 458 Italia Spider — $260,000

G. Gulfstream GIII — est. $2 million.

H. Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport — $1.9 million

I. Bugatti 16.4 Veyron — $1.3 million

J. Bugatti 16.4 Veyron —  $1.3 million

The total value of the exotic cars in Mayweather's photo is roughly $5.94 million. But that's not all. The boxer has reportedly owned more than 100 luxury cars over the years and is known to keep a collection of white-painted cars in Miami in addition to a fleet of black-painted cars in Las Vegas.

However, based on some of the prices the boxer quoted in a recent interview with ESPN, it is likely he grossly overpaid for many of the cars in his collection.

Then again, for a guy with an estimated net worth of more than $280 million, this is but a drop in the bucket. After all, we're talking about the same Mayweather who reportedly keeps $123 million in a single bank account. 

Money Mayweather doesn't claim to be an automotive collector in the same realm as a Jay Leno or a Jerry Seinfeld. Rather, he seems to be a guy who enjoys having nice things around — multiple copies of the same nice things. At the end of the day, driving the same Bugatti everyday of the week would be ... uncivilized. 

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On the eve of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, the experts have weighed in with their predictions.

While Mayweather is the betting favorite, the boxing world is more split on who will win than you'd expect.

Some think Pacquiao's left hand could lead him to the upset, and others think Mayweather's technique will crush Pacquiao.

Here's who the experts have winning:

• Dan Rafael, ESPN: Mayweather by decision
• Teddy Atlas, ESPN/'Friday Night Fights': Pacquiao by split decision
• Brian Campbell, ESPN: Pacquiao by split decision
• Nigel Collins, ESPN/'Friday Night Fights': Pacquiao by decision
• Bernardo Osuna, ESPN/'Friday Night Fights': Mayweather by split decision
• Joe Tessitore, ESPN/'Friday Night Fights': Majority draw
• Rafe Bartholomew, Grantland: Pacquiao by decision
• Eric Raskin, Grantland: Mayweather by decision
• Kevin Iole, Yahoo: Mayweather
• Jonathan Snowden, Bleacher Report: Mayweather by decision
• Kelsey McCarson, Bleacher Report: Pacquiao by close decision
• Ricky Hatton, boxer-opponent of Mayweather and Pacquiao: Mayweather
• Oscar De La Hoya, boxer-opponent of Mayweather and Pacquiao: Mayweather
• Shane Mosley, boxer-opponent of Mayweather and Pacquiao: Mayweather
• Miguel Cotto, boxer-opponent of Mayweather and Pacquiao: Pacquiao
• Juan Manuel Marquez, boxer-opponent of Mayweather and Pacquiao: Mayweather
• Chris Algieri, boxer-opponent of Pacquiao: Mayweather

Total: Mayweather: 10; Pacquiao: 6

The boxing world is pretty split on who the favorite is, which only adds intrigue to the richest fight of all time.

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As dominant as Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been over the better part of the last 20 years, there has always been a debate in the boxing world about whether he's susceptible to left-handed, or southpaw, fighters.

While he's the favorite over Manny Pacquiao on May 2, some are making the case that Pacquiao — the best southpaw of his generation — has some inherent advantages that could carry him to an upset.

Oscar De La Hoya has been in the ring with both Mayweather and Pacquiao. He went on Tim Kawakami's podcast on Thursday to talk about the fight, and mentioned the flaw in Mayweather's impregnable defense that could give Pacquiao an opening.

"I've preached this all along. The left hand is the Kryptonite for Mayweather. He just does not know how to block a jab. It's just not part of his arsenal. It's not a part of his defense, blocking that jab.

"What's going to be interesting is that Pacquiao has a lot of leg movement. So if he can keep firing that left hand, doubling it up and moving inside, moving outside he can give Floyd some trouble and make him think up there. Because you have to make Mayweather think. You have to take him out of his comfort zone. If Mayweather gets comfortable, he can cruise and win a relatively easy fight for 12 rounds."

Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said something similar in an interview with SI's Greg Bishop. Roach explained that Mayweather's patented defense — where he guards his body with his left arm, deflects punches with his left shoulder, and blocks/counters with his right hand — won't be as dominant against Pacquiao because he's a southpaw.

Here's Mayweather's shoulder-roll defense in action against a righty. Would it be as effective against a lefty?

In preparation for the fight, Pacquiao has been watching tape of Mayweather's 2006 fight against Zab Judah.

Judah, a southpaw, gave Mayweather relative problems early in that fight and even had the lead after four rounds. Before Mayweather took control of the fight and eventually won, Judah landed a left hand or two through Mayweather's defense:

Pacquiao is quick, unorthodox, and a southpaw. In 2009 he destroyed De La Hoya in a beating that an HBO analyst declared "Death by 1,000 left hands."

If anyone can take what Judah did well against Mayweather to the next level, it's Pacquiao, right?

Both fighters are keenly aware of this dynamic. While Pacquiao is studying Judah to see what he can learn, Mayweather went a step further. He actually hired Judah to be his sparring partner during his prefight training camp. Mayweather is famously calculating and tactically intelligent when he gets in the ring. He should be fully prepared for Pacquiao's left on May 2, despite the borderline-impossible-to-believe claim that he hasn't watched a single Pacquiao fight on tape.

It's also worth noting that Mayweather has beaten every southpaw he has faced, along with the rest of his opponents.

Despite that, the Floyd-southpaws theory has always had legs.

In 2012 Bob Arum — the Top Rank boss who promotes Pacquiao and was Mayweather's promoter between 1996 and 2007 — said Floyd turned down $100 million to fight Pacquiao because he hates southpaws (via Deadspin):

"But Mayweather will not fight him. Now why am I saying that? I'm not saying it to be, I know the guy and I know what his problem is, Mayweather, because we had him for 10 and a half years and his problem was he hated, he never wanted to face a southpaw and a southpaw that can move and punch with his left hand makes Mayweather completely vulnerable. All you have to do was watch him in the (DeMarcus) Corley fight where he didn't realize Corley was one when he made the fight. Corley shook him up and had him in trouble. Why? Because Mayweather is a sensational defensive fighter but that's against an orthodox guy. If he goes against a southpaw he opens himself up. You saw that happen in the Cotto fight because Cotto is a right handed fighter but he's really a southpaw that's converted and Cotto hurt him because he doesn't have a good defense to the left hand."

On May 2, Mayweather will get the chance to disprove this theory and end a debate that has lingered for years.

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Manny Pacquiao's career earnings are expected to surpass $400 million when he faces Floyd Mayweather in the "The Fight of the Century" on May 2.

This weekend alone, Pacquiao is expected to make more than $100 million.

While Manny isn't as flashy as Mayweather, he has lot of money to spend and he does it in some odd and over-the-top ways befitting a wealthy boxer.

Pacquiao earned $41.8 million in 2014, making him world's 11th-highest-paid athlete.

SOURCE: Forbes.com

He makes almost all his money in the ring, pulling in around $20 million per bout.

SOURCE: Forbes.com

But Manny is expected to make "well over $100 million" for the fight against Mayweather, the richest purse of his career.

SOURCE: New York Times

The 141st Kentucky Derby will be run on May 2, 2015. Currently, American Pharoah is the favorite at 5-2.

The fun of the derby is that it brings out all the rank amateur bettors in the nation. I have a friend who places her bets at the last minute, after she's seen which horses have pooped before getting into the gate, for instance. Another acquaintance never bets on gray horses. "Gray don't pay!" is her motto.

This is no way to bet on horses.

I, however, have a horse-betting system that takes the guesswork out of it. Or at least, adds to the fun for those of who can't be bothered to read The Daily Racing Form.

• Download my Kentucky Derby spreadsheet here.

The caveat here is that I know nothing about horses. But I do know that horse racing is really boring unless you have money riding on it. So I decided to approach the Kentucky Derby as if it were a probability problem that could be solved with Excel.

Here's how it works.

There are 20 horses in the running Saturday. So at the outset, you have a 1 in 20 chance of picking the winner.

Those are NOT good odds.

Some horses have better chances than others at winning — some might not like longer races, for instance — and the odds adjust on each horse as more bettors place their bets.

But the bottom line is that the derby is a crowded race, random things happen, and in theory any horse can win.

So a sensible investor approaching the derby as if it were a portfolio with different risk levels in it might want to ask, how many horses can I bet on and still come out ahead if any one horse wins? Put another way, can I spread my bets among as many horses as possible and still come out ahead?

The good thing about the derby is that there are a lot of horses running at very long odds. The formulas in my spreadsheet ask, for a $10 bet on each horse, how many horses can I bet on and still be able to win more than the total amount of money I've wagered?

This year, you can bet on 11 of the 20 horses at the current odds, and if any of them win you'll come out ahead. That reduces your overall odds to something slightly akin to a 50/50 coin flip. Much better than 20-1.

Of course, your portfolio will contain NONE of the favorites. In other words, you're betting on all the horses the other bettors think will most likely lose. But you're covering as much of the field as possible. Remember, you only need ONE horse to come in good and Business Insider just paid your mint julep bill for the weekend!

The horses you must bet on are these: Ocho Ocho Ocho, Tencendur, Danzig Moon, El Kabeir, Bolo, Itsaknockout, Keen Ice, War Story, Mr. Z, Far Right, and Frammento:

A $10 bet on each one to win will cost you $110. If any of them come first you will win at least $300 and as much as $500. (I've built-in a margin to give the betting a purpose — there's no fun in betting $100 to win $110, for instance.)

The other disclosure here is that I've used the current odds as of 4 p.m. eastern time on the day before the race. Odds change up to post time, so this is for fun only.

Personally, I use the spreadsheet as an advisor, not a decider. Remember the Edwards Quant Fallacy: There's a difference between good data and applying judgment to good data. So consider picking only three or four horses, some at good odds and some at long odds. That limits your losses but makes your gains interesting. The worst thing that can happen is that you'll add some genuine excitement to a race that is, otherwise, two minutes of chaos.

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Though the Milwaukee Bucks' season ended Thursday night with a 120-66 beatdown to the Chicago Bulls, they began a successful rebuild quicker than anyone imagined this season.

In 2013-14, the Bucks had the worst record in the league, finishing 15-67. In one year, the Bucks became the sixth seed in the East, winning a respectable 41 games despite low expectations.

The Bucks have essentially established a core of young, long, versatile, gifted defensive players that they hope to mold and build around in the coming years. While they're still a long way from being championship contenders, their early growth makes them one of the most interesting teams in the NBA.

The face of that core is "Greek Freak" Giannis Antetokounmpo, a 20-year-old forward with the skillset of a guard, but the height (6'11") and length (7'3" wingspan) of a center.

Giannis is still raw, but he's athletically gifted and is learning to use his physical traits quicker than anyone expected. In just two years he's already flashed talents that few other players in the league possess:

Antetokounmpo is the most exciting building block for Milwaukee, simply because his potential is so rare and unknown, but the Bucks have put similarly young, talented, and long players next to him.

Khris Middleton, a 6'8" wing with a 6'11" wingspan, will be one of the most coveted free agents this summer. Middleton had a breakout seasons in which he became a reliable scorer, an excellent shooter, and one of the best defenders in the league. Middleton finished in the top 10 in ESPN's Real Plus-Minus and Real Defensive Plus-Minus advanced stats, which takes a team's net differential with a player on the court and weighs it against that of his teammates to get a better picture of a player's impact on the court.

Many people feel the Bucks will match any offer Middleton gets from other teams this summer.

The Bucks also saw strides from John Henson, 6'10" center with a 7'5" wingspan who emerged after Larry Sanders decided to stop playing basketball.

Milwaukee is also waiting on the return of Jabari Parker, the No. 2 draft pick in 2014, who most people predicted to win rookie of the year. Parker tore his ACL in December after averaging 12 points and nearly six rebounds per game. Parker is also a long, versatile wing who people were comparing to Carmelo Anthony before the 2014 Draft.

The final piece is Michael Carter-Williams, the point guard the Bucks surprisingly traded for at the NBA trade deadline. Carter-Williams has put up lofty stats in his two years in the NBA, though most of those numbers came with the Philadelphia 76ers. He, too, is still raw. But at 6'6" he fits the mold of what the Bucks are trying to build, and the belief is the coaching staff thinks they can fix his biggest weakness: shooting.

The result of all of this length is that Milwaukee is already a realized defensive juggernaut. The Bucks finished the season second in defensive rating and first in opponent turnovers per game. The four-player combination of Giannis, Middleton, Carter-Williams, and Henson hasn't played much, but they all have the individual tools to be good defenders. Head coach Jason Kidd seems to envision a long, tall team that can switch defensive assignments at any moment because of their size advantage, and theoretically cause chaos to opposing offenses.

The difficult part is that this young core has to develop offensively. After trading Brandon Knight for Carter-Williams, the Bucks' already iffy offense fell off a cliff. After the All-Star break, the Bucks were 26th in offensive rating. For all of the flashes these young players have shown, they each have trouble creating their own shots, and none of them can be considered go-to options on offense. Parker could help with this if he reaches his potential as a scorer, but he, too, will need time to develop after missing most of his rookie year.

While offense comes easier for most young players and teams, the Bucks have flipped that trend. They're already elite defensively (with the help of some important veterans on the team), but now they have to develop offensively.

If all the players in the Bucks young core can realize their potential, the surrounding pieces become that much easier to plug in. With a core of five long, versatile players, the front office can essentially look for role players to put around them.

It's a rebuilding situation unlike almost any other in the league, and it makes Milwaukee an interesting team to monitor.

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It's no secret that NFL teams value some positions over others when it comes to the NFL Draft. As a result, teams are almost certainly reaching for those positions early in the draft.

For example, teams consistently draft more quarterbacks, offensive linemen, defensive linemen, and defensive backs in the first round than in the second round, even though there's no reason to believe there are more top players at those positions than any other. At the same time we see an overabundance of running backs, linebackers, and tight ends in the second round, suggesting teams are getting some first-round talents at a value at those positions.

The lines tend to settle down starting in the third round. But the lines are all over the place early on.

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Two years after negotiations for a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight blew up in 2010, the two fighters again failed to make a fight happen in 2012.

Mayweather, in what he would later call Pacquiao's last chance to make the fight, offered Pacquiao $40 million straight-up to fight him.

"I got on the phone with Manny. I done my homework, and seen what he was used to making in big fights. So the offer that I gave him. I offered him $40 million, and said that I would wire him $20 million within 72 hours," Mayweather told Bob Costa in March of 2012.

Pacquiao turned it down and asked for a 50-50 revenue split instead, Mayweather says.

"I’m not giving up the split. I’m not. I can’t. I can’t afford to," Mayweather told Costas.

That $40 million offer was widely panned as an insult to Manny. But still, $40 million was double what Pacquiao typically makes per fight. In addition, Pacquiao couldn't have known if he'd ever get another chance to fight Mayweather. Floyd would have made out like a bandit (he would have controlled 100% of revenue minus Pacquiao's $40 million fee), but you couldn't have criticized Pacquiao for agreeing to the biggest purse of his career.

Three years later, Pacquiao stands to make more than double what Floyd offered him in 2012. While Mayweather gets a 60-40 revenue split, Pacquiao still gets a cut of total revenue (PPV buys, ticket sales, everything). Forbes estimates that he'll make between $80 million and $120 million on May 2. The New York Times has Pacquiao's number at "well over $100 million."

Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, told the New York Times that Manny will get the first installment of his purse on Monday, two days after the fight, in a form of a check that's bigger than Mayweather's entire offer in 2012.

"On Monday morning, I will hand Manny a check for $50 million as a down payment, guaranteed," Arum said.

It's possible that Pacquiao could have made more if he agreed to a fight in 2010. Back then, Mayweather agreed to a 50-50 revenue split before Pacquiao pulled out of negotiations because he wouldn't agree to Mayweather's rigorous drug testing guidelines.

But compared to the 2012 offer that Mayweather later claimed would be his last offer, he made a smart move by waiting Floyd out and betting he'd come back with a better offer eventually.

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The highly-anticipated boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio on Saturday will likely go down as the biggest in history, on a number of counts.

All signs suggest the fight — which has been five years in the making — will break the all-time pay-per-view sales record— despite it costing between $90 to $100 to watch the bout live on TV. 

For venues such as bars and restaurants, there will be at least a $20 cover charge ($20 multiplied by the fire capacity of the venue) to show the fight. Buffalo Wild Wings said that would equal around $5,100 per restaurant, which is too expensive for most of its franchises. But many other locations and homes will be showing the fight, generating around $300 million in US, Canada, and Puerto Rico alone, according to sports market research firm Repucom. 

In addition, a further $13 million is expected to be made from closed-circuit international broadcasts, with networks predicting a further $35 million will be made in box office sales, according to Repucom.

The sponsorship numbers are equally meteoric

Pacquiao's promoter and president of Top Rank Todd duBoef told ESPN.com that their contracts with five title sponsors will add $13.2 million to the money generated by the fight, shattering previous records.

Tectate beer won the title sponsor rights to the fight, with an estimated $5.6 million bid, according to Repucom. The Tectate logo will be featured on the center of the ring mat, and on signage in and around the venue.

Aside from the title sponsorship, Repucom says the limited space available on fighter's apparel is also being snapped up by advertisers. Manny Pacquaio's shorts alone will carry sponsorships worth approximately $2.3 million, generated by six brands.

The minimum overall sponsorship with Pacquaio (which takes in more than just his shorts) was set at $1 million, according to ESPN.

Only the Super Bowl really compares in the one-off sporting events space in terms of sponsorship — Pepsi paid "upward of" $7 million a year for its half-time show rights, according to a 2012 NBC report. However, Pepsi has a wider 10-year sponsorship agreement with the NFL, worth an estimated $90 million per season, so it's likely the half-time show is packaged up within those rights.

During the ad breaks, movie studios have snapped up expensive ad slots. Trailers being aired will include "Terminator Genisys," "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation," and "SouthPaw," ESPN reports.

Repucom provided this infographic which demonstrates just how big a money maker the super-hyped Mayweather-Pacquiao fight is set to be.

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Manny Pacquiao had to get creative to buy his new mansion in Beverly Hills.

In addition to paying $12.5 million for the 10,000 square-foot sprawl, Pacquiao also gave the seller four tickets to his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to Martin Rogers of USA Today. 

Tickets are priced as high as $7,500.

Pacquiao's realtor told Rogers the tickets "no doubt" helped him get the house over two other bidders.

The seven-bedroom, eight-bath mansion has a sleek, bright interior with gorgeous backyard views overlooking Beverly Hills.

The house also has an in-home theater and a beautiful back patio with a pool and lounge area.

The house is an exclusive, gated community.

The entrance is two stories high with a fountain centered in the driveway.

The entrance with a winding staircase.

Just hours before Saturday night's long-anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, both Rachel Nichols of CNN and Michelle Beadle of ESPN and HBO announced on Twitter that they've been "banned" from the fight.

While they didn't explain the reason for the alleged ban, they've both been prominent in the discussion on Mayweather's history of domestic violence.

Beadle and Nichols posted the news within minutes of each other, with both claiming that Mayweather's camp — which is the lead promoter of the fight through Mayweather Promotions — was responsible for the decision.

Both the MGM Grand and Mayweather Promotions have not responded to requests to comment. However, Kelly Swanson, who is a member of Mayweather's PR team, took to Twitter to strongly deny that Beadle and Nichols had their credentials blocked.

According to George Willis of the New York Post, media credentials were only distributed in the past two weeks and they came with no guarantee that the holders would be seated in the arena.

It is unclear if there are other credentialed reporters who won't be in attendance.

Even if there was no guarantee for seating, and even if they do still have credentials, as Swanson asserts, both Nichols and Beadle seem pretty sure it was Mayweather's camp that singled them out for exclusion from the arena.

Shortly after her first tweet, Nichols posted an interview she conducted with Mayweather prior to his fight with Marcos Maidana last September. She asks him hard questions about his history of domestic violence. The interview begins at the 1:44 mark.

Beadle told SportsGrid about why she was denied attendance to the fight:

"They didn’t say in so many words, as much as they’re not fans of our hot takes? Honestly, not surprised. No one likes to be reminded of the horrible things they’ve done. I’m honored to be linked to Nichols.”

Beadle has made several comments on Twitter about Mayweather's history of domestic abuse and has also stated that she wouldn't buy the pay-per-view for the fight.

[UPDATE] Beadle has since tweeted that she has been told by HBO that her credential was "re-approved" but that she had already returned home and will not attend the fight.

Nichols later released this statement via Twitter reaffirming her stance that she was being denied a credential for the fight and that the Mayweather camp only reversed their stance after "significant backlash." She also says she will not attend the fight:

"Have had a bunch of folks asking questions about the Mayweather issue. Here's what happened: After asking tough questions of Floyd Mayweather on my program, I was not offered press credentials to cover tonight's fight. In an email dated April 23, I was told I would only be credentialed for the run-up events through the week, but in bold, italic letters the email stated "you do not have any access Saturday to any services or events." A CNN producer revisited the issue with the Mayweather camp on April 29, confirming to Mayweather's publicist that I would be in Las Vegas, and the publicist replied that I would still be denied a fight night credential. I was told the same thing when I arrived at the credential office in person on May 1, by two separate officials, in front of several other people. It doesn't surprise me that now, after facing significant backlash, the Mayweather camp has reversed its position. But despite this, and other outside parties generously offering me their seats, I will not attend the fight. I will also not let fear of retaliation prevent me from asking the tough questions the public deserves answers to in the future."

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is widely regarded as the best fighter of his generation and one of the best defensive fighters of all time.

He enters his May 2 fight with Manny Pacquiao with an undefeated record of 47-0. There's a case to be made that Pacquiao can pull an upset, but most expect Floyd to win this fight the same way he has won fights for years — making his opponent miss early, timing his counters to perfection, and eventually winning on points.

There's a radical juxtaposition between Mayweather's persona out of the ring (obnoxious, offensive, appalling) and his style within it (calm, intelligent, pragmatic). Over the years the fighters who've lost to Mayweather have spoken about his boxing brilliance in glowing terms, and explained what makes him so hard to beat.

Ricky Hatton (lost by knockout, December 8, 2007) 

"I was fighting a genius, a boxing artist. I was getting more and more frustrated. Lose your cool against Floyd Mayweather and what you do is you get knocked out." — to Showtime

Oscar De La Hoya (lost by split decision, May 5, 2007):

"Now we have to give credit to Mayweather because what Mayweather can do is what Mayweather Sr. calls 'walking your opponent down.' So what he does is he gets in the pocket and covers himself and he'll walk you down. And he'll let you throw punches and Pacquiao is probably going to keep throwing punches in bunches and he might tire himself out while Mayweather is just blocking everything. And then Mayweather can just come, throw his combinations of two or three punches, win the round, put the rounds in the bag, and win the fight." — to HBO

Canelo Alvarez (lost by majority decision, September 14, 2013)

"He doesn't expose anything. He's a fighter that if with three punches he wins the round from you, he's fine with that. He doesn't expose anything and give a beautiful fight. He doesn't care in what way he wins as long as he wins." — to FightHype

"He's very fast and accurate and moreso when he's just trying to make points. I didn't really feel his punches were that strong. But he's making points and he's very fast." — at his post-fight press conference

Shane Mosley (lost by unanimous decision, May 1, 2011)

"I felt that I had the advantage on Floyd. I was very certain that I could hit him with good shots and I thought that could be the difference. I caught him when he thought that he was out of the way. I kind of slid it, a veteran move, and caught him right on the button and rocked him. He was surprised and I was like, 'Wow, this is my chance. I'm going to get him. I'm going to knock him out.' But I just couldn't. He made the adjustment. He was able to capitalize. After that the fight was over. Mayweather did what he was supposed to do as a champion to win." — to Showtime

Juan Manuel Marquez (lost by unanimous decision, September 19, 2009)

"Mayweather has had great defense, long arms, and he's very smart." — to Showtime

"Mayweather’s reaction time is amazing. He sees what you are about to throw and is out of there before you can punch." — to WSJ

Zab Judah (lost by unanimous decision, April 8, 2006)

"His defense is still impregnable, his hand speed is still super fast, his conditioning is always marvelous. What can you say? The guy, he’s probably one of the hardest working fighters in boxing." — to Mark Giongco

Paulie Malignaggi, who thinks Mayweather is going to beat Pacquiao, gave this great description of Mayweather's defensive skill in 2013 before the Canelo fight (via Yahoo's Kevin Iole):

"He makes you miss a lot in his fights, but he doesn't make you miss the same way. If he made you miss the same way all the time, guys would start timing it and start hitting him. He'll make you miss the right hand in different ways. He'll make you miss the left hook in different ways. … He varies the ways he's able to defend and that is what makes him so difficult."

While there's an argument to be made that Pacquiao is a tricky matchup for Mayweather, there's a reason Mayweather is undefeated, and a reason he's a significant favorite to remain that way on May 2.

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Some cable and satellite customers have been reporting service outages ahead of the highly anticipated Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight. 

Outages have been reported by Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Dish Network and Charter customers, among others. 

Charter tweeted this statement Saturday night: 

We are aware of the issue impacting the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao feed. We are working to resolve as soon as possible ... We are aware that the issue is impacting multiple channels, including playoffs, the fight and more.

Customers were paying $90 to $100 to watch the fight on TV. The event, which has been heavily promoted for several weeks, was expected to generate potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in bets, but not everyone was convinced it would live up to the hype.

Regardless, it's proving to be a 

Last week, USA Today reported some Showtime and HBO executives expressed worries about potential service issues. The concern was that the flood of traffic from pay-per-view customers ordering the fight would tax the system as the start time approached.

DirecTV appeared to be ready for potential problems. The satellite provider has intermittenly tweeted this message from its service account:

Here's how the outages are shaping up on social media:

More to come...

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Tickets for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao were in high demand and became extremely expensive on the secondary market.

Those who could afford to get seats also chose to arrive in style.

Nick Woodhouse, President of Authentic Brands Group, tweeted a picture of the Las Vegas airport flooded with private jets, crediting Marc Jay:

Emilio Estafan also tweeted a picture of private jets lined up at the airport:

Fox Sports anchor Liz Habib also tweeted that the airport is now closed to private jets.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are about to enter the ring in the most anticipated fight of the decade and the richest bout of all time.

The fight was expected to start around 11:30 p.m. eastern time on pay per view, but it has been delayed because of widespread technical difficulties related to PPV distribution, commentator Jim Lampley told viewers on the air.

We'll be here with round-by-round score updates, results, GIF highlights, screenshots, and live commentator of the fight.

We've waited five years for Mayweather-Pacquiao, let's do this.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Manny Pacquiao in a unanimous decision to remain undefeated on Saturday night.

The judges gave the bout to Mayweather by a relatively wide margin, with scores of 118-110, 116-112, and 116-112.

But in the ring after the fight, Pacquiao said in his interview that he thinks he should have won because Mayweather avoided him in the ring.

Mayweather, who used his signature defense to neutralize Pacquiao's typically aggressive, unorthodox style, eluded Pacquiao by dodging his punches and moving around the ring.

Pacquiao said afterward, "I thought I won the fight," adding, "He didn't do nothing."

Pacquaio at one point referred to Mayweather's style as "running."

Whereas Pacquiao has often relied on flurries punches to take down opponents, Mayweather plays a safer style, offering jabs while dodging his opponents' big shots. The combination of the two helped him outscore Pacquaio by a healthy margin:

Even when Pacquiao had the chance to get in punches, Mayweather covered himself up well, minimizing the damage and taunting Pacquiao afterward:

Pacquiao wasn't alone in feeling that way, however. Boxing legend Evander Holyfield told ESPN afterward, "Of course, it takes two people to fight. You got one guy moving. You got one guy trying to catch him."

While Pacquiao and others may have been frustrated by Mayweather's style, this is what has made Mayweather so successful. He's strategically cautious and uses his historically great defense with small jabs to ring up the score. Against a powerful hitter like Pacquiao, this was the perfect strategy.

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