{"id":21032,"date":"2013-05-06T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21032"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:07:38","slug":"playing-defense-floyd-mayweather-jr-dominates-robert-guerrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21032","title":{"rendered":"Playing Defense, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Dominates Robert Guerrero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 The defense was back, just like it used to be. <strong>Floyd Mayweather Jr.\u2019s<\/strong> dad was back, too, just like he used to be. And <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> was a winner once again \u2014 just like he always is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> fought as if he had never left the ring, coming back from a year\u2019s absence Saturday night to win a unanimous 12-round decision over <strong>Robert Guerrero<\/strong> in their welterweight title fight. The game plan was defense, and <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> followed it perfectly. With his father directing from the corner after a 13-year absence, he dominated<strong> Guerrero<\/strong> in a performance not totally expected at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed my father tonight,\u201d <strong>Mayweather s<\/strong>aid. \u201cMy defense was on point and he told me to stick with my defense and that the less you get hit the longer you last.\u201d <strong>Mayweather <\/strong>was masterful at times, landing thudding right hands and bloodying <strong>Guerrero\u2019s<\/strong> face in a performance that mimicked some of his best fights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather <\/strong>hurt<strong> Guerrero<\/strong> on several occasions, including a series of right hands near the end of the eighth round that buckled<strong> Guerrero\u2019s <\/strong>knees. All three judges scored the bout 117-111. The Associated Press had it 119-109. \u201cWe did it again,\u201d <strong>Mayweather <\/strong>said after earning at least $32 million for his night\u2019s work. \u201cI take my hat off to <strong>Robert Guerrero<\/strong>. He\u2019s a true warrior.\u201d If it wasn\u2019t terribly pleasing to the crowd of 15,880, it was terribly effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather <\/strong>made a fighter who hadn\u2019t lost in eight years look befuddled as he danced and moved and shot out right hands with increasing frequency. He remained unbeaten in 44 fights and, more importantly, looked so fresh that he may follow through on his plan to fight again in September. \u201cI was looking for the knockout but I hurt my hand,\u201d <strong>Mayweather <\/strong>said. \u201cI feel bad I didn\u2019t give the fans the knockout.\u201d <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> said he planned to fight again in September, a short turnaround for him, as part of a six-fight deal he has with the Showtime network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 The defense was back, just like it used to be. Floyd Mayweather Jr.\u2019s dad was back, too, just like he used to be. And Mayweather was a winner once again \u2014 just like he always is. Mayweather fought as if he had never left the ring, coming back from a year\u2019s absence [&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-21032","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\/21032","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=21032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}