Everyone who ever heard of Cassius Clay or that Ali guy knows you can?t be a great boxer unless you have an ego as big as all of Wyoming.
Both Manny Pacquaio and Oscar De La Hoya could?ve been serenaded by Carly Simon singing ?You?re So Vain? on the Monday before their Saturday megafight at the MGM Grand.
I mean, Pacman did not ride his ?personal? wrapped bus to Vegas from LA. Rumor has it penny-pinching Bob Arum bought his superstar a one way ticket on Greyhound. But Pacman spent plenty of time admiring the bus after it delivered his lackeys, footmen and henchmen to Nevada.
Oskie, meanwhile, was glowingly admiringly at a 14-foot tall statute of himself. It stands erect, as if had taken Viagra suppositories voluntarily, alongside Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky statutes outside the Staples Center.
Don’t bug me about the Richard Schaefer statute. They’re working on it.
It?s Big Fight Week, boys. It?s all about Oscar and Manny.
Egomaniacs make great boxing champions, it’s true.
