Some things are just meant to be. Floyd Mayweather?s successful ring return after a 16-month absence was shrouded in controversy and outrage here on Saturday night when he was accused of “blindsiding” opponent Victor Ortiz with two illegal blows in a widely contentious fourth-round finish. Mayweather will always be the bad boy. Just as he will always be a marketing genius. And just as Manny Pacquiao will remain a media darling. Just the way it is.
As the great Samuel Johnson, an English journalist of the last century, once wrote: the best journalism follows certain credos. His motto ? Research meticulously. Simplify. Exaggerate. For these principles, read Mayweather and Pacquiao. And those aspects will not change until the pair are long gone from the ring.
The final act of this absorbing World Boxing Council welterweight title fight will fall into the annals of boxing?s most debated finishes, yet the bizarre denouement merely masked the deficiencies of work-in-progress Ortiz, and enhanced the sublime skills which Mayweather possesses.
