LAS VEGAS -- When it was all said and done, the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor spectacle delivered an actual fight after all.
That was really the question all along, right? Would all of this hype and social media theater produce anything that resembled a real fight. Or were we just buying in to some well-lit exhibition match, whose only purpose was to make all of its beneficiaries rich?
Even the most stingy of haters out there would have a hard time complaining about Saturday's junior middleweight fight inside T-Mobile Arena.
Mayweather, who reached his perfect 50-0 mark, expertly weathered McGregor's early storm before opening up offensively in a way fans hadn't seen in years.