Floyd Mayweather Jr. won his rematch with Marcos Maidana to retain his welterweight and super welterweight titles late Saturday night in Las Vegas. For his efforts, Mayweather won at least $32 million.
Mayweather still walked away from the MGM Grand miffed, though, because of an act stemming from an eighth-round tie-up with his Argentinian opponent.
"He bit me!" Mayweather, 37, yelled to broadcasters of the fight to a Showtime audience.
Mayweather said after winning by unanimous decision that he was bit on the wrist and it affected the rest of the match.
"We were tangled in the center of the ring and I didn't realize what it was. Then I saw that he bit me," Mayweather said, according to FoxSports.com. "After the eighth round my fingers were numb, I couldn't use my left hand."
Mayweather complained after the two fought first -- a decision he won in May -- that Maidana was a dirty fighter. He complained that Maidana then tried to hit him below the belt in Saturday's eighth round. Then, the accusation of the bit.
Mayweather complained to referee Kenny Bayless, going to his corner to show Bayless where he bit him, then mentioend the bite to the Showtime announcers. Maidana wasn't penalized for the bite, but was later for tackling Mayweather.
Maidana denied the biting accusation.
"How can he say I bit the glove with my mouthpiece?" Maidana asked. "I'm not a dog."
Must ask the wife
Andy Sullivan finished third in this weekend's European Tour KLM Open in the Netherlends, which fell short of his biggest feat of the weekend.
It was during Sunday's 3-under 67 final round that he won a unique prize. On the par-3, 163-yard 15th hole at the Kennemer Golf Club in the Netherlands, Sullivan made a hole-in-one, which not only kept him in line for a solid finish but made him eligible for a trip to outer space.
The trip was being offered by XCOR Spec Expeditions, an Amersterdam-based company that will begin offering trips to space for the public in 2015, and is valued at $100,000, according to ESPN.com.
It was a prize Sullivan had shown interest in all week when, according to ESPN.com, he joked if he won the prize, "I'll win a trip home."
When asked after the hole in one, Sullivan wasn't so sure, though.
"I'll see what the missus says," he said.
Late payment
Some of the Washington Nationals likely went straight to their smart phones after wrapping up a 3-0 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday to see how their fantasy football teams were doing.
Outfielder Jayson Werth wasn't one of them, though.
Werth, who is in the fourth year of a seven-year contract worth $126 million, wasn't invited back to the Nationals fantasy league for failing to pay his league dues last season. Nationals reliever Craig Stammen told a Washington radio station that Werth didn't pay until spring training in March, almost two months after the season ended.
"We kicked Jayson Werth out of the league this year," Stammen told the radio station. "Jayson failed to pay last year. He didn't pay us until spring training, so we kicked him out of the league for late payment."
Stammen, the league's commissioner, said the league is a good way to keep their minds off their pennant race.
"It keeps us being good friends with each other," he told the Washington Post. "It's a little bit of competition on the side without having to compete with each other on the field."
Sports quiz
When did Floyd Mayweather Jr. win his first professional title, and whom did he beat?
Answer
Mayweather won the WBC super featherweight title in 1998 after beating Genaro Hernandez.
Sports on 09/15/2014