⏰ Back in 2015 Floyd Mayweather & Conor McGregor stepped inside the ropes at the T-Mobile Arena in one of the most lucrative bouts in boxing history.
🎤 Although the main event was a formality, the World Tour to kick off the promotion was anything but.
🌍 It was entertainment at its peak, drawing huge crowds to witness the two trash-talk their way through a press conferences across the world.

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In 2005 Sky Sports spent time with Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton to speak about his career and follow the build-up to the biggest fight …

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The fight involved no world titles, but that did not prevent it from being a large boxing event.

The behind the scenes storylines involving this fight helped build up fan interest too: Mayorga, nicknamed “El Matador” (“The Killer”), had been active for the two previous years, settling for a no contest and a knockout win (in a rematch) against Andrew Lewis, then defeating Vernon Forrest twice before losing to Cory Spinks, all in world title fights. He had also won one fight at the Middleweight division.

During the weigh-in the day before the fight, Mayorga, feeling taunted by Trinidad’s fans, responded by grabbing his genitals towards those fans. For the Trinidad fight, Mayorga dyed his hair red. Asked why he did that, he answered that he dyed his hair just because he felt like it.

Trinidad, for his part, had not been active for two years. He lost his motivation, according to him, after Hopkins refused to give him a rematch of their September 28, 2001 bout, in which Hopkins unified the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles by knocking Trinidad out in twelve rounds. After a win against Hacine Cherifi in four rounds in 2002, Trinidad retired. Trinidad reportedly reached a weight of 200 pounds (91 kg) during his retirement.

The fight was telecast on HBO’s Pay Per View, and commented by Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant and Roy Jones Jr. The fact it was held in New York guaranteed that many fans from both countries, especially Puerto Ricans, would come to cheer for their boxer.

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After making the first successful defense in his second reign as WBC Heavyweight champion against the previously undefeated Henry Akinwande, Lennox Lewis agreed to make his second defense against controversial Polish fighter Andrew Golota.

Golota was coming off two consecutive disqualification losses to Riddick Bowe. Golota had dominated the action in both fights and lead on all of the judge’s scorecards before landing multiple low blows on Bowe that caused the referee to stop the fight both times.

Initially, Golota was to face Olympic Gold Medalist Ray Mercer after his second fight with Bowe, but a neck injury forced Mercer to forgo the match and Golota was able to come to an agreement for a title fight with Lewis instead.

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