As funnier wags have said about this photo of Peter Dinklage and Gennady Golovkin, ?GGG would have decimated the Mountain.? Golovkin certainly would have confirmed the kill.
In this mammoth-sized edition of Quick Jabs, we will have more substantial matters to discuss about GGG. We will also have the subject in the headlines, and more goofy-ass discussion about the alphabet gang, and Victor Conte, and boxers being stabbed or shooting people. Quick Jabs is a font of positivity.
Let?s get a whole bunch of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao junk out of the way first. Remember, Quick Jabs is a la carte, so you can always skip around if you?re sick to damn death of Mayweather and Pacquiao. We?ve even evenly bisected it for you.
Quick Jabs, Floyd And Manny Parts
Surprise, surprise: Mayweather has been accused of beating up another woman. By this point, with all the things Mayweather has been convicted of doing to women and all the things he?s been accused of, too, you?d have to be naive not to take the claims seriously. The woman this time is ex-fiancee Shantel Jackson, who has hired Gloria Allred, which means this could get pricey. Anytime someone goes to civil rather than criminal court first for a battery allegation, though, it can give off the appearance of someone who?s more interested in money than justice. The invasion of privacy stuff from the lawsuit? That could hold some legal water in a civil court?
50 Cent hasn?t let up on his attacks against Mayweather as illiterate, and yes, truth be told, it?s cruel. It?s also hard to have sympathy for Mayweather when he?s just as cruel toward others, or even more cruel, absent some kind of disclosure of a learning disability. 50 has offered to fight Mayweather, to which Mayweather has responded like he?s some innocent victim. Like he?s not the one who triggered 50′s attacks from the start?
The episode of Showtime?s All Access program to hype the Mayweather-Marcos Maidana welterweight rematch had about one good moment featuring Mayweather ? him buying the sex toy for one of his assistants was moderately amusing ? and a few that weren?t so pleasant. For instance: He should hire someone to tell him to wipe his mouth off after eating a Big Mac. And yeah, yoga has been bastardized as it has been westernized, but doesn?t it take it to a new level of gross for something that was meant to be spiritual for Mayweather to throw a bunch of dollar bills down around his yoga mat??
Presumably the next episode will touch on Mayweather?s consultation with Alex Ariza, the former Maidana strength and conditioning coach that Mayweather had darkly hinted was affiliated with PEDs when he was hanging out with Pacquiao. Ariza isn?t the most trustworthy figure, as Mayweather himself hinted at a not so long ago, so all the people who thought Mayweather was really, truly trying to clean up the sport back when he was insisting on advanced PED testing to face Pacquiao probably ought to give up that foolish belief. And Mayweather, already the source of scurrilous ?rumors,? deserves extra scrutiny for hiring someone he himself has vaguely suggested is a PED supplier?
Oh, and if you were on the side of ?Pacquiao is to blame? for why we don?t have a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in the record books by now, shift your allegiance in the other direction, because the latest impossibly adjusted goal post from Mayweather as a condition for the fight is that Pacquiao sign with Mayweather Promotions. The drug tests? Mayweather had an argument (back when; as mentioned above, less so now). The ?can?t be with Top Rank? condition? Not an argument. The ?must sign with Mayweather Promotions?? Just flat ridiculous. It?s why you should just go ahead and ignore it anytime one side or the other talks up Mayweather-Pacquiao. Even if one side or the other wants it more, it isn?t going to happen. And if you want to blame anyone, right now, Mayweather is more to blame?
Pacquiao is in the midst of dealing with another claim of a big tax bill. So far, he?s avoided the full brunt of this one. At a certain point, why wouldn?t you just hire a reliable accountant? If it kept happening to me, if I kept being hit with multi-million dollar tax bills, I?d fire whoever was working for me?
J?Leon Love has, one one level, earned his animosity, that level being his failed drug test a couple years ago. On another level, the animosity is simply tied to him being promoted by Mayweather. It?s understandable to want Mayweather to fail; it?s less understandable to be happy because of that when Love gets knocked out, as he was this past weekend. David Greisman has a great column on that subject here.
