LAS VEGAS — “I sometimes contradict myself,” shrugged Floyd Mayweather, back in late April, days before the so-called “Fight of the Century” that, well, wasn’t. “Whoop de do.”
Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is indeed a master of rebutting his own assertions, sometimes in the same breath, yet perhaps never moreso than in the build-up to what he promises will be the final fight of his career.
That comes Saturday night against Andre Berto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, what appears to be a one-sided clash before Mayweather heads off into retirement for the second, and almost certainly not the final time.