For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the party rolls on. Mayweather and his self-titled “Money Team” planned to have a festive “Black Friday” evening at a so called gentlemen’s club known as The Factory in Chicago. Mayweather is well known as a teetotaler but give him this, the man loves his late nights and night clubs. I could tell you this is a Marley “scoop” but FMJ revealed his Chitown itinerary to 945,277 of his “closest friends” on Facebook. Meanwhile, Manny Pacquiao is on the other side of the world, licking his wounds, both physical and psychic from his not well recieved victory over Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12. There was a lingering public odor remaining from Mayweather’s controversial Sept. 17 TKO over Huggy Bear Victor Ortiz but Pacquiao’s less than impressive performance against his pesky Mexican archrival and the resulting debate over the merits of the official scoring of the bout have washed away the Ortiz fight stench. The way I see it, on the verge of his 33rd birthday (Dec. 17, come as you are, Gensan, by invitation only I’m afraid), Pacquiao is at a professional crossroads. That 28 stitch cut over his right eye is a reminder that he did not emerge unscathed from this thrid bout against Juan Ma. If anything, Marquez has found a new level of popularity as even non Mexicans feel that ring justice was not served by the official decision.
