Given the ?Big Fizzle? nature of the boxing match, this so-called savior of boxing just might be the beginning of another end?
?Manny may test Floyd early but as soon as he learns what Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez did (that Mayweather has pop in his counterpunches), he will become more tentative and more frustrated.??Oscar De La Hoya
?A.J. Liebling observed that televised boxing would result in the closing of most venues, thus wrecking the sport. He was right. Today, however, we?re all applauding the return of boxing to more-or-less free TV. Understandably so. It won?t save the Sweet Science any more than will Mayweather-Pacquiao, but it?s better than nothing. And better than nothing is about all boxing fans can ask for.??Clarence George
?My heart goes with Manny, but my brain says Money.??thousands of posters
This much ballyhooed extravaganza featured a hug between Jon Voigt and Clint Eastwood, a wiggle from a somewhat larger Paris Hilton, stumbling and mumbling from Lennox Lewis, and too many amateur analyses from too many amateur analysts like Tom Brady, Charles Barkley, etc. And thank god Manny?s mother was not in the ring dispensing prayers and morphing this mega fight into a freak show.
Many, including a refreshingly solid Al Bernstein who showed great symbiosis with Jim Lampley, even said this fight might be the needed revival of a ?dying sport.?
Around round 5, Mayweather did what he does best by adjusting to Mannys? awkward style and settling into his familiar groove of controlling the action. Pacquiao made no adjustments. One boxed smartly; the other seemed confused and frustrated. By winning enough rounds as if each round was a fight in-and-of- itself, Floyd Mayweather won the fight?and comfortably so. Thus, given the ?Big Fizzle? nature of the actual boxing match and its result, this so-called savior of boxing just might be the beginning of still another end.
As for the historic significance, if someone repeats something a thousand times, there must be some truth to it, correct? No, not correct, because those who are proclaiming the historic significance of this event are those who will profit the most from it?journalists, commentators, promoters, etc. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao was historic in terms of a business deal and only for that reason.
