The way Andre Berto describes his experience fighting Floyd Mayweather, it almost seems like Mayweather took the bout while in The Matrix.
Berto, the former world champion boxer, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that Mayweather is “very, very, very” aware of everything going on in the ring during a fight — “almost like obsessively.”
Mayweather’s last fight was against Berto, a unanimous decision victory for “Money May” in September 2015. Berto said he noticed Mayweather taking in everything, from the clock multiple times during a round, to every position and angle, to the position of Berto’s hands, to the referee, to looking at Berto while he was in the corner in between rounds to see if he was taking deep breaths.