This past Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, five division world champion Floyd Mayweather returned to the ring after a two year retirement stint and stopped UFC superstar Conor McGregor in the tenth round.

McGregor opened strongly in the first four rounds, in what was his professional boxing debut, before tiring with Mayweather coming into his own by the time the fight was stopped.

The Irishman claimed he could have kept going if he had been given a chance to get back to his corner. McGregor became the best-paid boxing debutant of all time, netting a guaranteed $30 million plus a share of ticket sales, pay-per-view and merchandising revenues, along with one-off sponsorship deals.

After the fight was over, there were more people chatting up McGregor's performance than Mayweather's victory.

Many saw the fight as a complete mismatch with McGregor likely getting stopped in the first half of the contest. Very few expected him to survive until the tenth round.

IBF, WBA, WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward had a ringside seat and was part of the coverage team for ESPN.

The man who many regard as the current best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing, expected a more dominant performance from Mayweather. He felt Mayweather, now 40 years old, was finally showing signs of his age. And like many others, Ward was surprised that McGregor performed as well as he did.

“I expected a lot less from McGregor and I expected a little bit more from Floyd Mayweather. I think Floyd showed his age a little bit. He’s still got a lot left in the tank, but when you start seeing yourself getting hit with punches you typically won’t get hit with, especially against a guy with no experience, and you’re not offensively getting off and throwing like you should be - it’s time to hang it up. It’s not that you don’t have it, but you want to leave before you don’t have it anymore," Ward said.

Ward was also questioning some of Mayweather's tactics in the fight. There were several instances where Mayweather completely turned his back on McGregor and placed his hands over his head. Some experts felt that Mayweather was attempting to entice McGregor to do something illegal.

“I didn’t understand Floyd giving McGregor his back. That’s something that personally I don’t do and we are taught not to do. You’ve got to protect yourself at all times. If for some reason McGregor lost his cool and hit Floyd with a meaningful punch behind the head - Floyd can be really, really hurt. So I don’t understand that. I think McGregor showed a lot of restraint even those we saw a few hammer punches. We’ll take that from a guy doing this pretty much all his life," Ward said.