Floyd Mayweather made his boxing debut in the UK last month, as he held an exhibition match in London. Even though ‘Money’ retired back in 2017, he still refuses to leave boxing. And he still follows his passion by participating in numerous exhibition fights. Now his exhibition fight with Aaron Chalmers did not turn out as was expected by the Mayweather team as not a lot of people showed up in the audience when the fight took place. This did not depict a good picture of Mayweather’s legacy.
Now, this is the worst fight of Mayweather’s career, at least when it comes to the business aspect of the fight. In the fight, ‘Money’ was facing a former MMA fighter, Aaron Chalmers, in front of the world at the O2 Arena. The fight took place on Feb 25, but the empty seats disappointed Mayweather on a whole different level. But still, after the fight, Floyd Mayweather was grateful to the UK audience.
Facebook video adds salt to Mayweather’s wounds
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The embarrassing fight of Mayweather’s career was again reminded to the fans by the Facebook account ‘The Ring’. As they posted a video on their Facebook account, covering the event in bullet points, and also called it the ‘worst fight’ of ‘Money’ in the title.
The video highlighted the excuse given by Floyd Mayweather for such a bad exhibition event for the fans. They also stated that even though the concept of the fight was interesting, Mayweather fighting a rising MMA fighter, it did not work. And Mayweather was a bit mad at his team for not organizing the event properly.
Floyd’s team also tried to delay the fight for half an hour, to give the audience more time to fill in the stadium. But even that was in vain, as the seats were still empty. Mayweather was furious and stated that the tickets should have gone on sale two weeks earlier. H
Fans react to the failure of Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition match
Many fans came forward and stated that they do not want to watch an exhibition match as they called it a waste of their resources. Let’s look at some comments.
One fan, Luis Flores, suggested, “It would be nice if he could take a percentage and donate it to patients with cancer, kids and adults I’m sure it would get packed.”
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Another fan, Robert Dabu, wrote, “I would pay to watch Floyd in BKFC”.
Fujiwara Fretsuko had this to say about the video, “Lol i didnt even know this fight existed lmao, it was that poorly marketed”.
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Bernie Rapirap wrote, “really…. who wants to watch chicken running around?”
One of the fans, Anthony Blair, wrote in the comment section, “Tbf I don’t think the fight was advertised at all I didn’t have a clue this was happening.”
Cyril G. Castañeda wrote, “Floyd “EXHIBITION” Mayweather..” as a joke.
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So the fans did not leave any chance to ridicule Floyd Mayweather for his previous exhibition fight. But this would not stop ‘Money’, and as history is evidence, this would only motivate the boxing legend to do better next time.