{"id":10025,"date":"2011-09-19T15:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2011-09-19T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:37:09","slug":"mayweather-wins-in-4th-round-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10025","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather Wins In 4th Round Knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAS VEGAS<\/strong> \u2014 In just one round, <strong>Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/strong> got a head butt, a kiss and a hug from <strong>Victor Ortiz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He responded with a right hand that ended a bizarre fight early.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> remained unbeaten and did it in emphatic fashion Saturday night, stopping <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> at 2:59 of the fourth round to take the piece of the welterweight title<strong> Ortiz<\/strong> brought into the ring.<\/p>\n<p>The end came just as the two fighters emerged from a break, in which <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> had embraced <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> in the center of the ring. As they broke, <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> shot out a left hand and followed it with a right that put <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> down in his corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ortiz<\/strong> struggled to get up as referee <strong>Joe Cortez<\/strong> called an end to the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe touched gloves and we were back to fighting and then I threw the left and right hand after the break,\u201d <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> said. \u201cIn the ring you have to protect yourself at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The round was already controversial, as <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> appeared to head butt <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> intentionally, leading <strong>Cortez<\/strong> to take a point away from him. After the head butt, <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> went to <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> and gave him a kiss on the cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later they were in the center of the ring ready to resume action when two punches ended it quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> earned $25 million and a portion of the gate which will come out to be $40M. <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> made $2.5 million, but will end up with $5M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 In just one round, Floyd Mayweather Jr. got a head butt, a kiss and a hug from Victor Ortiz. He responded with a right hand that ended a bizarre fight early. Mayweather remained unbeaten and did it in emphatic fashion Saturday night, stopping Ortiz at 2:59 of the fourth round to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}