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Enough Already?
We?re nearing a week since Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz became one of the most talked-about fights in 2011 and the buzz hasn?t ceased. A few points I?d like to touch upon before we all go on our merry ways:
I have to wonder if the same fans who bitched about the left/right Mayweather landed on the hapless Ortiz bitched about ?comedian? Katt Williams? (I use quotation marks because I think Williams is as funny as a case of hives) recent rant about Mexicans. As our own Steve Kim discussed in his recent Maxboxing article, Cheap but Legal (http://www.maxboxing.com/news/sub-lead/cheap-but-legal), all because you can do it doesn?t mean you should. That said, if legal is legal, what?s to cry about any longer? I think in order to get that wound up about the actions of a prizefighter within the legal limits of a contest, you have to harbor some serious dislike for and bias against said fighter. And did Ortiz really think looking at referee Joe Cortez was the best of ideas after taking that left? All fighters should know full well that a ref isn?t going to give two sh*ts about what you think when you bring try and grab his attention. It?s only when he notices the infraction when a fighter either gets satisfaction or penalized, depending on the situation.
Unless you?ve been on the moon or you?re Amish, you?ve enjoyed HBO analyst Larry Merchant?s response to Floyd?s rather unnecessary tangent, which has made its rounds on- believe it or not- local news sports reports (the last time I recall Mark Giangreco, Chicago?s ABC sports guy, making any mention of boxing was when he rhetorically asked, ?What?s a Nicolay Valuev?? There. That?s it). And yeah, I think Mayweather was out of line when he went off on Uncle Lar.? Was Merchant?s mission for answers really that much of a pain in Mayweather?s ass? It?s just too bad that a couple of months of training for Victor Ortiz can?t strengthen one?s manners. On the other hand, with as irreverent as Floyd ?I ain?t no junior!? Jr. is to his own father, why did we expect him to act any other way toward Merchant? A word of advice to LeRoy Neiman (the only advice I think I can actually give him): Don?t sit so close to render a Mayweather fight. At age 90, your paintbrush?ll get slapped out of your hand and your canvas will wind up in the nosebleeds.
