article_snippet: For this, Mayweather can take most of the credit.
article_snippet: The five years in which Mayweather held to ransom the hundreds of millions around the world who have been begging Mayweather to face Pacquiao in the ring have generated a commercial monster of unprecedented enormity.
article_snippet: Whatever Mayweather's reasons for stalling – and Mayweather has been accused of everything from cowardice (outrageously) to an excessive obsession with Mayweather undefeated record (possibly)
article_snippet: – Mayweather has proved Mayweather to be an economic genius.
article_snippet: Mayweather's business acumen has already made Mayweather the wealthiest sportsman on the planet.
article_snippet: After this there will be no catching Mayweather in the foreseeable future.
article_snippet: Even as Mayweather waits for the biggest pay cheque of all, Mayweather continues to enjoy the fruits of Mayweather punishing fistic labours.
article_snippet: Who can deny that's Mayweather's earned it?
article_snippet: And whatever anyone may think of Mayweather, there is no smarter operator in the whole wide world of sport.
highlights_snippet: Floyd Mayweather deserves the credit for creating such a frenzy around the fight .
  