It was if the posturing and preening was interrupting the ringside conversations; that’s how into Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto fight the crowd seemed to be at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, which was pocked with more than 3,000 empty seats.
But for a split-second in the seventh round of Mayweather’s supposed “last fight,” Berto had an ooooh moment, when he connected with a left hook to get the dormant crowd going on Saturday night. And just like that, Berto had his moment, and Mayweather returned the fight to its regularly scheduled banal rhythm.