Anybody who is familiar with Bridge, a cerebral card game that requires two teammates facing another in a north-south vs east-west seating arrangement will surely know what a trump card is or cards are.
Trumps cards are the spade suits used to foil a turn by an opposing team in Bridge.
Former Chinese strongman Deng Xiaoping is reportedly a world class Bridge player.
In today?s boxing world, Floyd Mayweather Jr could be likened to Bridge player.
Floyd will use his cards to extract advantage over his opponents.
Remember how he uses his undefeated record and previous pay-per-view (PPV) showings as leverage against any opponent?
Those are skills not at all related to the fight itself.
Those are negotiating skills that he has so far perfected over the years.
In his botched fight with Filipino boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather used the drug-testing issue as another trump card up his hands to get the psychological advantage.
Only, it almost backfired.
Almost because while the fight eventually went kaput, Mayweather found a trump card ? courtesy of Andre Berto withdrawing his March fight schedule with Shane Mosley.
Mosley was the only credible opponent who can match up or even better Joshua Clottey whom Manny picked as soon as he dropped the loud American flamboyant.
Mayweather?s super id cannot make him bear fight fans pick Pacquiao over him as the world?s best pound for pound king.
He had to take the Mosley fight even though his fellow American should be the second best man he would cross path with ? the fist being Pacquiao himself ? to keep his immaculate 40-0 record.
Even before he could do away with Mosley, Mayweather is already hinting that he won?t settle for a split-purse with Pacquiao.
That posture is priming boxing fans with a win over Mosley and a better PPV than Manny?s over 800,000 that he did in fighting Clottey.
Mayweather even made sure a rematch clause will be included in his fight contract with Mosley.
The Mayweather-Mosley fight is one of the better fights this year and it will likely generate more than a handful over Manny?s PPV take with Clottey.
In that case, it would make the most sought after Mayweather-Pacquiao fight even more unlikely given the American?s propensity to lay down ludicrous demands aside from the mandatory drug-testing.
That is one more big trump card for Mayweather.
But me thinks, the biggest of them all and the ultimate trump card is Mayweather?s fear of Pacquiao.
Hello. Mayweather is just using Pacquiao as a trump card to make his self relevant and continue to rob boxing fans of their money by fighting boring fights.
Cut that crap, Floyd. Just say that you ain?t fighting Manny. Not ever.
