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Floyd Mayweather defeats Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision

By Andrew V. Pestano
Floyd Mayweather Jr., speaks during a news conference after his victory over Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight unification bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, May 2, 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather won with an unanimous decision after the 12 round fight. Photo by David Becker/UPI
1 of 23 | Floyd Mayweather Jr., speaks during a news conference after his victory over Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight unification bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, May 2, 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather won with an unanimous decision after the 12 round fight. Photo by David Becker/UPI | License Photo

LAS VEGAS, May 3 (UPI) -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision after 12 rounds for the welterweight world championship in Las Vegas, Nev. Saturday.

Mayweather, 38, is now undefeated with a record of 48 wins, zero losses and 26 knockouts. Pacquiao, 36, now has 57 wins, 6 losses with 38 knockouts.

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"Manny Pacquiao is still a champion," Mayweather said. "He still has a lot left. I was the better man tonight -- more calculated fighter, took my time, had patience."

"I was a smart fighter, I out-boxed him," he said.

Pacquiao, who was born in the Philippines, believed he got the best of Mayweather.

"I thought I won," Pacquiao said in the ring post fight. "He didn't do nothing, just moved outside. I got him many times."

"He is moving around and it's not easy to throw a lot of punches if your opponent moves around. I can handle his power, it's not strong like other opponents. It's not about size. I've been fighting bigger than him and it's not a problem," Pacquiao said.

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Mayweather plans to retire after his last scheduled fight in September.

Before the fight, two of the most prominent women in sports reporting were banned from attending.

Michelle Beadle, of ESPN and HBO, and CNN's Rachel Nichols, who both have covered Mayweather's history of domestic violence, tweeted that they were banned from MGM Grand Arena by the Mayweather camp.

"While Mayweather is adored by fight fans, there is a much darker side to his story," Nichols said in her September CNN interview. "He has had a string of domestic violence arrests, citations, and in 2010 an incident that landed him in prison. According to the police report, Mayweather grabbed the mother of his three children and, by the hair, punched her in the head several times, and threatened to kill her. This was all in front of his kids, who he also threatened to kill before one of them called the police."

Mayweather's publicist, Kelly Swanson, denied that Mayweather banned the journalists.

"Nobody was banned from the arena, OK?" Swanson told the Huffington Post. Beadle later said she was able to get another credential, but by then she had already left Las Vegas.

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