Julio Cesar Chavez challenged Floyd Mayweather to an exhibition fight
Floyd Mayweather and John Gotti III finally met in Mexico City for the rematch of their exhibition fight and the fight started with controversy after Floyd Mayweather ordered the change of the referee in the second round.
Floyd Mayweather changes referee in the 2nd round
After the referee failed to reprimand Gotti for a blow to the back of Mayweather’s head, Floyd became irritated and threw such a fit that they had to replace him with another one to continue the fight.
While exhibition fights do not have a definitive winner, Floyd Mayweather came out on top with the final score of 80 – 72.
It could be concluded that Mayweather was the winner of the fight against Gotti III in Mexico City.
However, in the middle of the fight, the audience began to boo the two athletes in the ring for their lack of action since they were not throwing punches at each other, especially Gotti.
The attendees whistled and disapproved of what they were seeing in the ring, especially for John Gotti’s lack of initiative.
Julio Cesar Chavez challenged Floyd Mayweather to an exhibition fight
The lack of participation of Gotti, prompted Julio Cesar Chavez, the legendary Mexican champion to climb into the ring and challenge ‘Money’ Mayweather to an exhibition fight.
Chavez is a commentator for TV Azteca, one of Mexico’s biggest television networks that have regular boxing transmissions, and while narrating the fight, he mentioned that he could’ve done more than Gotti.
When challenging Mayweather, “Money” replied, “He is older than me, if we gave a fight it would not be a good image for me, Julio César Chávez paved the way for boxers like me, he is one of the best fighters in history