Bleacher Report - Boxing: Floyd Mayweather Injury: Updates on Boxing Star's Hand

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Floyd Mayweather Injury: Updates on Boxing Star's Hand May 5th 2013, 05:19 Floyd "Money" Mayweather has reportedly sustained an injury to his right hand in his defeat of Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero at the MGM Grand on Saturday night. After successfully defending his WBC Welterweight Title via a unanimous decision, the boxing superstar said that he injured his hand in the fight (according to Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix): No news is yet known on what round the injury occurred, but according to Sports Illustrated's Bryan A. Graham, Mayweather says it happened during the fight. The 36-year-old also took off his glove after the fight to show the injury. According to his contract with Showtime Networks Inc., Mayweather was scheduled to have up to six fights in the next 30 months—the first of which being this fight against Guerrero. What impact the injury will have on those plans still remains to be seen, with no news yet known on the details or severity of the injury. However, as Steve Kim at Max Boxing suggests, it could well postpone his next fight scheduled for September against an undetermined opponent. Mannix already pointed out above that the star avoided questions about potentially fighting Canelo Alvarez, whom many would love to see square off against Money May, and that this injury may end derail any chances of that fight coming together.  Mayweather's right hand was simply dominant against Guerrero throughout the fight—opening up his opponent with several great jabs during the middle rounds. According to ESPN Stats and Info, the 36-year-old landed 60 percent of his power punches throughout the fight as he chalked up a 117-111 unanimous-decision victory, with all three judges giving the same score.  It is not yet known in what round Mayweather sustained the injury, but there's little doubting he fought for a significant portion of the fight with the injury—and likely still landed several huge blows in the process. The victory extended Mayweather's unbeaten streak to 44-0.   Hit me up on Twitter for more sports goodness:    Read more Boxing news on BleacherReport.com

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