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LAS VEGAS — Sometimes Darth Vader wins.
His spinning, evasive, technically proficient defense of his title accomplished, Floyd Mayweather Jr. jumped atop the ropes in his ring in his arena in his town and preened. He crossed his arms in that aren’t-I-the-baddest fashion and stared cold-eyed at the crowd in the MGM Grand Garden.
They rewarded him with cascading waves of boos.
To stand and peer around the darkened arena in Mayweather’s moment of triumph was to see a striking sight, as most of those booing appeared to be not Filipino fans of the beaten Manny Pacquiao but Americans, white and black.