Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto: Fight Card Highlights, Online Odds and Pick

College football fans didn't always like the Bowl Championship Series, but the BCS was meritocratic in theory. Boxing is still stuck in the days of when pretty much any team could claim to be a national champion.

Boxing organizers let the stars set their own path, and as a result, you see Floyd Mayweather taking on a clearly overmatched Andre Berto. It was a cynical choice from Mayweather, who seems more concerned with preserving his perfect record ahead of making a good fight.

The good news is that this could be the last time fans are force-fed another lifeless Mayweather-headlined event.

Mayweather vs. Berto Card

Weight Class	Matchup	Odds
Welterweight	Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto	Mayweather (-5000); Berto (+1400)
Super Middleweight	Badou Jack vs. George Groves	Jack (+120); Groves (-150)
Super Featherweight	Ramon Martinez vs. Orlando Salido	Martinez (-225); Salido (+175)

Fight Card Preview

This is one of the rare occurrences where the undercard should eclipse the main event in terms of quality. Granted, most boxing fans would likely want to see a great main event and a terrible undercard rather than the other way around.

Either way, this is leaps and bounds better than the sham fights Top Rank and Mayweather Promotions combined to give fans before Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.

BoxingScene.com's Victor Salazar offered this bit of faint praise:

Badou Jack and George Groves are the de facto headliners of the undercard, and their styles make for what should be a fun fight.

Twelve of Jack's 19 wins have come by knockout, and he took a big step forward with his majority-decision victory over Anthony Dirrell in April. Meanwhile, eight of Groves' last 10 fights have ended in knockouts—which includes his two defeats to Carl Froch.

Groves will be the underdog, but he's confident all of his work researching his opponent won't go to waste, per Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole:

The rematch between Roman Martinez and Orlando Salido should be entertaining as well.

Their first meeting wasn't exactly a technical masterpiece but enjoyable nonetheless. Who's going to complain about two guys throwing caution and technique to the wind?

Martinez doesn't envision things changing when he meets Salido again.

"Everyone saw the first fight against Orlando Salido," he said last month, per ESPN.com's Dan Rafael. "I know that this second bout will also be a war. Once again we have the rivalry between Puerto Rico and Mexico, which guarantees plenty of action."

With this undercard, you can at least feel that not all of the $75 you spent to get the pay-per-view is going to waste. Maybe just $40 is.

Mayweather vs. Berto Prediction

Let's face it: Mayweather is going to win, and it's going to be incredibly boring.

Have any of Mayweather's fights been enjoyable since he returned to the ring in May 2013? You could argue his first matchup with Marcos Maidana was a lot of fun, but that was more down to Maidana's aggressive approach than anything else.

There are a lot of reasons to not like Mayweather—the domestic violence allegations, his braggadocious style out of the ring, his risk-averse style in the ring—but there's no getting around the fact he's the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

Perhaps somebody down the line will give Mayweather his comeuppance. That somebody almost certainly won't be Berto.

The 32-year-old doesn't own any discernible advantage over Mayweather in the ring beyond potentially in punching power. And even then, Berto hasn't looked the same since having shoulder surgery in August 2013.

This has all the trappings of another typical Mayweather fight. The unbeaten champ will allow Berto a wider berth in the first couple of rounds. Then, he'll start throwing in a few punches here and there, just enough to win the judges over.

Once the ninth and 10th rounds arrive, the outcome of the fight will be all but decided.

Winner: Mayweather by unanimous decision