ALLAN THE MAN

Boxing coach Freddie Roach thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. fought a tactical and highly defensive fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.

But while Roach admitted that Mayweather has a slick boxing style, he still considers the pound-for-pound king a boring fighter.

Floyd Mayweather’s win over Mexico’s Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez has been confirmed as the richest fight in boxing history with nearly $150 million in pay-per-view revenues, US cable network Showtime said Thursday.

The revenues for Saturday’s unified super welterweight championship in Las Veges surpassed the $136 million that was generated by Mayweather’s 2007 showdown with Oscar de la Hoya.

Embattled judge C.J. Ross has stepped down from her job scoring professional boxing matches in the aftermath of criticism over the way she handled the Floyd Mayweather/Canelo Alvarez title fight.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday that Ross emailed Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer on Tuesday to request an indefinite leave of absence.

The controversial judge who penned an even score after the 12-round bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has defended her contentious scorecard.

Boxing judge CJ Ross told the Las Vegas Review Journal that she had Alvarez winning that much round noting that the Mexican had actually worked effectively inside and had connected the more telling jabs.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. dominated Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez to wrest the WBC and WBA Jr. Middleweight titles on Saturday night, September 14 (Sunday, September 15 in Manila) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, United States.

The American fighter displayed his superior boxing skills from start to finish to run away with a Majority Decision and improve his record to 45-0 with 26 KOs.

The 36-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr. weighed in at 150.5 pounds — just under the mutually decided catch weight of 152 pounds.

Canelo Alvarez (42-0-1) hasn’t weighed 152 or less for a fight since 2011, while Mayweather has fought above 147 just twice — for the Oscar de la Hoya and Miguel Cotto wins.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will end months of promotional build-up and weeks of premium cable sniping on Saturday night (Sunday morning PHL time), when they meet in the ring at the MGM Grand for both a pair of 154-pound titles and the enviable position as the sport's top drawing card.

PREDICTION: Mayweather via TKO in the 10th

Most 36-year-old fighters wake up one day and, all of a sudden, feel every bit of 36 years old. Mayweather's uniqueness – at least in part – has been the ability to train as hard as he did as a 20-something and see similar results in the ring as a 30-something. Unless his day of age reckoning arrives this weekend, he's still the faster and more skilled fighter and represents a gigantic leap in class over anything Alvarez has been in with. The longer the fight progresses, the more that'll matter and the more the disparity in landed punches will grow. Ultimately, it'll mean an intervention from referee Kenny Bayless, somewhere past the halfway point of round 10.