Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao: Results, Breakdown of Historic Fight

In retrospect, fans should have seen this coming. There was almost no way Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao were going to put on a show for the ages, a fight that would enter the pantheon of boxing's most spectacular clashes.

Mayweather won in a unanimous decision. Two judges had him winning eight rounds, while another gave him 10. Pacquiao went out not with a bang but a whimper Saturday night in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

By the end, Pac-Man was seemingly the only person who thought he had won.

"I thought I caught him many more times than he caught me," he said, per The New York Times' John Eligon. "I was never hurt."

Although some were favoring Pacquiao, this fight was always Mayweather's to lose, something he had never done in his previous 47 bouts. He has aged more gracefully in the ring than Pacquiao, and in their respective primes, he was arguably always Pacquiao's superior.

As he has gotten older, Mayweather has also reverted even more into his defensive shell. The 38-year-old has never been one to care about the aesthetic beauty of his fights, and as his skills diminish, he becomes increasingly wary of becoming too exposed in the ring.

After beating Pacquiao, he commented on how boxing has ceased being an enjoyable endeavor for him, per Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix:

In retrospect, that attitude came across Saturday night. Mayweather's tactics—constant clinches and movement around the ring, a high volume of mostly glancing blows—were ruthlessly efficient and almost zero fun to watch for fans.

It didn't look as though Mayweather was taking any sort of joy from the fight beyond sticking it to those fans who doubted him, per Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN:

In the end, he was worried about one man and one man only: himself. And who's to argue with that strategy?

You can't help but wonder if this fight did actually happen five or six years ago whether the result would've been any different.

Mayweather might have been a bit more careful, but Pacquiao would have been in a better position to cut down the angles and prevent Mayweather from running around the ring. In addition, an offensive flurry like the one he had in the fourth round Saturday could've meant the end for Mayweather right then and there.

Instead, what fans saw was a Pacquiao past his prime and sapped of his knockout power. A shoulder injury didn't help matters, either, but it's highly unlikely that the 2015 version of Pacquiao at 100 percent is able to topple Mayweather.

Boxing fans are probably still a bit upset with the final outcome and general lack of excitement from the fight, but at least they saw the fight at all.

The question as to whether Pacquiao is better than Mayweather finally has an answer, while Mayweather crossed off one of the biggest conquests left in his legendary career.