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Healthy, wealthy and wise, Mayweather strolls into retirement

LAS VEGAS -- Father Time will always be undefeated, but Floyd Mayweather, who closed out his legendary career on his own terms on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena, came about close any a fighter can come.

Mayweather returned from a two-year layoff at age 40 to take on UFC 155-pound champion Conor McGregor, because who wouldn't return from a two-year layoff at age 40 to earn -- when the cash register stops ringing from the fight -- perhaps $300 million for one night's work in another record-breaking event?

Mayweather put in real work, too, on his way to a 10th-round technical knockout of McGregor, a novice boxer making his pro debut in a fight that was wholly illogical -- which was probably one of the reasons millions of people were so intrigued.