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Floyd Mayweather Stops Deji To End Chaotic Dubai Event

Written by Kerr Ferguson on 13th November 2022.

Floyd Mayweather and Deji

Floyd Mayweather stopped YouTuber Deji in his latest exhibition.

Tonight in Dubai, the age old question was answered – what happens when one of the greatest boxers of all time faces off against a YouTube personality with three losses and one win against people of a similar level? Answer: Floyd Mayweather makes a ton of money and barely breaks a sweat. CompuBox can take the night off for this one.

‘TBE’ danced around the ring as he threw punches. That’s not a boxing term. He literally was doing a jig a for large periods of the fight. His hands were down by his side or up in the air leading the crowd in a chant of his opponent’s name. When he did get hit, he smiled and kept Deji honest with a few of his own.

The 45-year-old former champion was hit clean at the halfway stage and started, as many had predicted, to move up a gear or two. Another veteran in the ring, referee Kenny Bayless, warned ‘Money’ about hitting below the belt, to which the fighter replied ‘I can do whatever I want.’ The legend’s left eye began to swell, which will be a story Deji will likely tell for years to come.

As soon as Mayweather even considered putting some pop in his shots and landed a few in a row, Bayless waved it off. Deji had buckled at the knees very slightly, and these exhibitions should always follow the advice of better safe than sorry.

It’s always nice to see Mayweather put on a show, but one can’t help feeling that an exhibition with someone who was once at least close to his level, à la Ricky Hatton and Marco Antonio Barrera, would give the fans so much more.

As an event, it was hectic and confused about what it wanted to be. Before the final fight, the pundits and commentators earned their pay by filling a huge delay.

The crowd booed. At 1:30AM local time there was absolutely no sign that the main event was coming soon, rather conversations about Andrew Tate, how good Dubai is, and whether they would pay for a John Fury OnlyFans.

Elsewhere on the card, Delfine Persoon hit her opponent after the bell which meant her 51st fight ended in a no contest.

Anthony Taylor beat former Love Island winner, Jack Fincham, in a four-round exhibition. He told the crowd that security would have to get him out of the ring before leaving quietly.

J’Hon Ingram and Koji Tanaka entertained the crowd with back and forth action. Jaider Herrera made Franklin Manzanilla quit on his stool in between rounds.

Tommy Fury’s last minute exhibition drew boos from the crowd and culminated in him and his father trying to fight Jake Paul, who was on commentary duties for that portion of the event.