{"id":437716,"date":"2023-06-12T06:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437716"},"modified":"2023-06-12T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:46:18","slug":"mayweather-gotti-exhibition-fight-interrupted-by-fans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mayweather-gotti-exhibition-fight-interrupted-by-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather-Gotti exhibition fight interrupted by fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather and John Gotti III exhibition fight was interrupted by massive brawl, engulfed by fans, who flooded the ring after a controversial decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Floyd Mayweather\u2019s exhibition fight with John Gotti III ends in massive brawl \ud83d\ude33\ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dsfE5Mn4Oi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dsfE5Mn4Oi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyLoud\/status\/1668197054680555522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Match official Kenny Bayliss stopped the match in the sixth round, which infuriated Gotti, who lashed out at his opponent as a consequence.<\/p>\n<p>The ring was then swarmed by members from both teams as the referee was unable to contain the massive brawl.<\/p>\n<p>Police had to intervene as the arena was cleared from the enraged fans, who were threatened with charges if they refused to leave.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media video afterwards Mayweather was filmed saying:\u00a0&#8220;That&#8217;s why they pay the big bucks, because I put on a show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old retired in 2017 with a record of 50-0 and since then has appeared in several exhibition fights.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first exhibition in the United States since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather and John Gotti III exhibition fight was interrupted by massive brawl, engulfed by fans, who flooded the ring after a controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437717,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[19825],"acf":{"announce":"A controversial refereeing decision saw avalanche of fans flood the ring","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437716"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437716"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}