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Manny Pacquiao believes he beat Floyd Mayweather in ‘Fight of the Century’ boxing bout

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Manny Pacquiao insisted he believed he’d beaten Floyd Mayweather after his unanimous points defeat on Saturday.

“I thought I won the fight, he didn’t do nothing,” Pacquiao said after the defeat.

Most judges and experts had Mayweather a comfortable points victor.

Scattered boos rang out around the crowd of 17,000 in the MGM Grand after Mayweather comfortably outboxed his Filipino rival to frustrate hopes of a full-blooded slugfest.

The 38-year-old Mayweather (48-0, 26 KOs) retained his WBC and WBA welterweight titles and seized Pacquiao’s WBO belt by winning the fight on all three of the judges’ scorecards.

Mayweather received scores of 116-112 from two judges. The third judge scored it 118-110.

But when the results were announced the pro-Pacquiao crowd booed lustily and tried to drown out Mayweather’s post-fight comments over the public address system.

Filipino star Pacquiao suffered the sixth loss of his career to go with 57 victories and two draws.

The fight is widely believed to be the most lucrative in boxing history with revenues of $400 million.

Pacquiao was the aggressor, pressing action from the first round and was able to land some big lefts on Mayweather’s chin, especially in the final seconds of the early rounds.

But ultimately Pacquiao wasn’t able to keep up his frenzied early pace for all 12 rounds and Mayweather, who was the bigger of the two fighters, managed to slip in counterpunches and hard right hands that stopped the Filipino in his tracks.

Mayweather reiterated after Saturday’s super fight that he would retire after his next fight in September which will fulfil his six-fight contract to Showtime Sports.

“My last fight is in September. I`ll do that and I will hang it up,” said Mayweather, estimated to have earned $200 million.

Pacquiao meanwhile insisted he thought he had won.

“I thought I won the fight. He didn’t do nothing,” he said.

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