On Saturday 3rd May in the MGM arena Floyd Mayweather extended his unbeaten record to 46 fights with a tough, hard-fought victory over Argentinian Marcos Maidana.

In doing so he retained his WBC Welterweight belt while unifying the WBA belt. Floyd also currently holds the WBA and WBC Light Middleweight belts.

It wasn’t by any means a vintage performance by Mayweather who was dragged into a dog fight by Maidana, because of this the haters were out in full force.

Although most so-called experts wrote Maidana off, even after dismantling Mayweather’s good friend Adrian Broner. I knew the fight wouldn’t be a forgone conclusion or an easy Mayweather victory.

I watched the fight 3 times, first live, then two more times after, with and then without sound and the influence of commentators.

Maidana put up a great fight, was aggressive and made it competitive, but Floyd undoubtedly won.

It wasn’t 117 -111 like one judge gave it. But at the same time it certainly wasn’t a 114-114 draw like another judge scored it.

In terms of rounds won, it was either 8-4 or 7-5 to Floyd, and that was giving the really close rounds to Maidana, rounds 4 & 8.

The last two rounds I feel Mayweather done enough to win, but I split them between the fighters. People who are saying Maidana got robbed and he won the fight are obviously just bitter.

It’s funny how all the credible boxing heads are saying Mayweather won. But the anti Mayweather brigade who probably have never stepped foot in a ring are saying he “clearly lost”

It’s ridiculous, or is it just because Floyd’s that good, if a fighter doesn’t get completely dominated like they are used to seeing.

They and their fans claim that as a moral victory and to them that’s enough to think they won?

Quite frankly, although Maidana gave Floyd his best fight for ages. There is no way you can expect a boxer to win a fight with tactics of just head down and wild swinging.

Floyd easily had the cleaner work and after round five, though Maidana continued to go forward, he hardly connected with a clean punch.

Because of his success, Mayweather just can’t win. If he sticks and moves, uses his feet and completely outboxes a guy like he did with Alvarez, people will say he ran or fights boring.

If he stands and trades, gets dragged into a dog fight and gets caught with more punches than we are used to seeing. Just like he did against Cotto and Maidana.

People say he is losing a step, not as good as he thinks or overrated, and if he fights like that against [insert your favourite fighter here] he will definitely lose.

Lets get one thing straight, people seem to forget Floyd is 37 years old. How many boxers or even athletes out there his age are, and have dominated the game at such a level?

Hopkins is the only one that comes close, and he’s not even fighting the same calibre of fighters in such a deep talented field as the Welterweight division.

A division with so many young, fast and strong boxers.

Of course he’s getting slower, father time catches up with us all.

He’s not stupid and this is why he has put a time on his career with only 3 more fights left.

Because he’s been so dominant, when that dominance slightly dips, people question it because of the high standards he has set. Personally even though it wasn’t a dominating display by Mayweather I still think it was a good performance.

Especially in the terms of coming up against a young, strong, powerful, rough fighter who no doubt made it difficult for Floyd.

He had to deal with a cut from an accidental headbutt, multiple low blows, but gave as good as he got and came out the victor.

I laugh at all the anti Mayweather crowd who are so desperate for him to lose they are claiming Maidana got robbed, clearly won or this was even a draw.

But I guess when you are that good and at the top for so long you generate hate and disdain from all corners of the world.

You wouldn’t believe it by his admiration today but even the great Mohammed Ali wasn’t really loved by the masses until he was no longer a dominate force and became really ill.

So all Floyd can do is continue to win, stack the millions and let the public hate.

I guess those who know, know and those who don’t, hate. 46-0!