Floyd Mayweather Jr. (USA, 45), former five-division world champion in professional boxing, on November 14, 2022 (13th local time), popular YouTuber Desi Oratunzi (UK, 25) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and 8 exhibition matches, and won 6 times by TKO.
The match was dominated from the beginning with Mayweather Jr. chasing Oratunji, confirmed his guard. Mayweather Jr., who returned to the corner after the second inning, showed a quick mitt strike against the second opponent, creating an “easy win” vibe.
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Mayweather punches Asakura
Mayweather Jr. dances between rounds
After the third performance, they danced to the venue’s music and excited the hall. Then, in the 6th inning, he suddenly picked up the gear and overwhelmed the opponent in a close fight, and at the end, when the opponent drove to the corner and hit again and again, the referee intervened between the two and stopped’ the game.
Oratunji is a popular YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, and just made his professional boxing debut in August this year after fighting several bouts as an amateur. The difference in ability with Mayweather Jr., who has won all 50 professional fights and is a former five-division world champion, is obvious, and most of the punches he has thrown are break the sky
Boxing Scene (web version), an American boxing media that reported on the exhibition match, said that Oratunji was serious about the extravagant exhibition match, but that Oratunji, who was inexperienced, was not Mayweather Jr.’s enemy.
Mayweather Jr. was also dancing between rounds, smiling and joking for most of the round, and said he was toying with Oratunji until he decided the match in the sixth inning. On the other hand, most of the punches that Oratunzi threw were weak and easily slipped through Mayweather Jr.’s body.
He also talked about the exhibition match with martial artist Mirai Asakura (30) held at Saitama Super Arena in September this year. The article compares the content of the Oratunji fight and analyzes that Mayweather Jr. was clearly serious in the exhibition match with Asakura. In the same exhibition match, Mayweather Jr. was taken down with a right counter just before the end of the second inning, and the referee stopped it as it was.
After retiring from professional boxing, Mayweather Jr. held an exhibition match with Tenshin Nasukawa (24) at the martial arts event “RIZIN.14” in December 2018, and was knocked down three times by Nasukawa. He took one TKO victory. In 2021, he played against popular YouTuber Logan Paul (USA, 27) and became a hot topic.
