Mayweather vs. Maidana 2 Scorecard: Breaking Down Each Judges' Decision

When you're Floyd Mayweather, anything less than perfection feels like a disappointment.

Mayweather retained his welterweight and light middleweight titles in Las Vegas on Saturday with a unanimous decision win over Marcos Maidana. Two judges scored it 116-111 and the other had it 115-112, per Showtime Sports:

The judges just about nailed it. The fight was like a football game in which one team dominates for almost the entirety. Then the other team musters a late comeback to kinda make it interesting, but nobody really believes that the comeback's actually going to work.

Sure the scoreboard says 34-28, but the victors had a 20-point lead until the final five minutes. It wasn't really all that close.

Despite what looked like a much more decisive result in the rematch, Mayweather said after the victory that he believed his level of performance had declined from from the first bout:

The first time around, Mayweather was tested in a major way, per ESPN.com's Dan Rafael:

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Typically, Mayweather fights are over early, when it is obvious that he is dominating his opponent and on his way to a wipeout decision win. But Maidana, a 12-to-1 underdog and given no chance by anyone other than his most ardent supporters—one media poll was 46-0 in Mayweather's favor—was in the fight all the way.

'This was a tough, competitive fight. This is what fans want to see,' said Mayweather, who was hit by more punches than in any of his 38 fights tracked by CompuBox. 'I want to give fans an exciting fight. Normally, I box and move. Tonight, I gave fans an exciting fight.'

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In the rematch, the winner was much more clear. Everybody—save Maidana and members of his camp—believes Mayweather won the fight. It was about as decisive a result as you could've expected.

Mayweather wasn't going to be dragged into another slugfest. Maidana's power and unorthodox style caught him off guard in the first fight. By Saturday night, Money had the perfect game plan for how to deal with El Chino, and it involved lots of running around and bobbing and weaving.

Maidana alluded to Mayweather's constant movement after the fight:

Those comments come off sounding like sour grapes from the Argentine. Maidana looked flustered for much of the fight, with his frustration really coming out in the eighth round, when Mayweather claimed El Chino bit his left hand:

That was the last act of a desperate man. Once the fight crawled past the eighth and ninth rounds, the only thing that was going to stop Mayweather was a knockout. Short of that, Maidana was out of luck.

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix believed that the final scoring would be one-sided, despite Mayweather's late theatrics:

Mic's Bryan Armen Graham scored it 117-110:

ESPN's Robert Flores went one step further, putting Mayweather ahead 118-108:

When going back to the actual scorecards, 115-112 seems to be giving Maidana a little more credit than he deserved, though he did have his moments. You could certainly make a case that Mayweather owned only a slight advantage by the end.

Making it 116-111 is much more in line with the gulf between the two fighters. Mayweather hardly needed to break a sweat to win. Whatever advantage Maidana owned was fleeting. After a few seconds, Mayweather regained control and got things back on track.

The scoring can't be that contentious because all three judges gave Mayweather the win. As long as he wins a unanimous decision, who cares what the final numbers are?