Maidana denies biting Mayweather: 'Maybe he thinks I'm a dog'

Floyd Mayweather complained bitterly after his rematch win over Marcos Maidana, accusing the Argentine slugger of biting him on the left hand in the eighth round.

The two were in a clinch when Mayweather pulled his hand back sharply and complained to Bayless that he was bitten. Bayless stepped between them as Mayweather pointed and yelled at Maidana.

"He bit my f--ing hand. He bit me," Mayweather said to referee Kenny Bayless.

Mayweather said after the fight was over that his hand bothered him from the eighth round on.

"I couldn't feel my hand the rest of the fight," he said.

Maidana denied biting Mayweather, saying it is not possible while wearing a mouthguard.

"I never bit him, he was rubbing my eyes with his glove," Maidana told reporters. "Maybe he had his glove in my mouth but I did not bite.

"Maybe he thinks I'm a dog but I did not bite him."

Mayweather saw the events differently.

"We clenched, we came together my hand went under him and he bit my three fingers," said Mayweather. "My three fingers went numb, I couldn't feel my fingers the rest of the fight.

"When he first bit me, he acted like he didn't do it. Then he said I put my hand in his mouth."

In the 10th round, Maidana was docked a point for sending Mayweather to the canvas with a forearm across the throat and tensions escalated in the 11th when the American landed a low blow and then ordered the Argentine to stop stalling and fight. — AFP and Reuters