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MEDIA FRENZY OVER ?MAY-PAC? DELUDES FANS AND PEOPLE By Reni M. Valenzuela PhilBoxing.com Sun, 26 Apr 2015  Before lamp?s invention, there was perspective. Scribes write by what they see from where they are. Hence if you?re part of the Las Vegas ?delirium? for its May 2nd event, reports and opinions would be the same and are likely to jibe with the mad atmosphere of the place, unless you climb Nepal?s Everest to recover yourself and view the world from there. Move away a little. Bob Raissman of New York Daily News, in his column hours ago, sees it right: ?Whoever wins in Mayweather-Pacquiao, fans will lose. In the run-up to next Saturday?s fight, media minds are more concerned about how much moo-la-dee the event will generate than whether you, the fan, can even afford to watch it. The consumer can go directly to hell. There is almost as little concern for financial reality as there is over Mayweather?s history of beating up women.? When are the blind better than those who are not? Recall the main reason why promoters were compelled to finally make the ?Mayweather-Pacquiao.? The fans through boycott and ?People Power? pushed the promoters (Arum and Floyd) to the limit until they?ve no choice but to come to terms with each other at whatever cost. Otherwise, they realized, they will suffer to no end mockery from the people and embarrassingly dwindling PPV numbers as they have experienced in the most recent fights of their respective cash cows. Money, power and talent don?t bestow a right to abuse anyone. What?s news about it? 500 tickets for ?Mayweather-Pacquiao? were reportedly sold out in minutes ten days before the actual event. Why not? What?s new? What?s special? Try to announce and sell 500 lotto tickets to the world and see if it?s not gone in half a second. A Pacquiao fight used to sell 12,000 tickets within a week and two months ahead of the bout. Awake. We are being made fools out of a situation promoters manipulated into existence. There goes the bait. Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (4/23/15), ?No doubt, thousands of boxing fans were left disappointed and are angry at the promoters, the MGM and Ticketmaster? Some fans claimed on various social media platforms there were NO TICKETS ever made available to the public. Within minutes, secondary ticket markets were posting seats for sale.? Oh, at mind-bugling prices. CNN describes ?May-Pac? tickets as having been priced ?for financial heavyweights.? It?s difficult to know why it?s traffic, if you?re stuck in it. Regret ahead. The fight that is expected to bring about healing to a sick sport is now the very microbe that could cause its demise. With the abuses and magic already perpetrated and being put in place, the Mega Bout is a DISGRACE to human race. Don?t even be surprised if it will be a no fight in the ?fight? throughout twelve dull rounds. The event is completely becoming a circus, not a contest or fight sport - in the name of almighty dollars. Correct the numbers, or alter your eyes. The menu is halfway half-cooked and the mafia?s role is to broil or invent ?scenarios? to justify the first ?rematch.? The referee and judges have just been named and tasked with a ?mission.? Obviously, the choices indicate that producers are up to something, all for business purposes. While fans are concerned about the fight, the promoters? only concern is money ? the big revenue they can possibly generate from this year?s ?May-Pac? and from multiple artificial rematches they can stew from 2016 to 3015. Kenny Bayless as referee for the bout is hilarious. It is telling us that an exotic recipe is indeed cooking up. Watch closely that third man in the ring. Read Dela Hoya?s lips. Probably everyone in both camps knows what?s going on ?Inside? except Pacman. Though Pacman will make an admirable move by making true his announcement of ?skipping the hoopla? of ?grand arrival? ceremony on Tuesday. In the wake of the unfolding drama, some fans get hooked. Beyond the flurries of the MGM Las Vegas sham on May 2, this thing called ?richest bout? is a TEST OF CHARACTER for fans, people and media. How one reacts or ?appreciates? the brouhaha surrounding GREED that is deeply ingrained in its production, regardless of a dream matchup coming into fruition, reflects the person?s HEART and his thirst or distaste for the good life. ?Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled? ? Matthew 5:6. Worldliness is why the world is filled with emptiness. Could there be a self-defeating bout worse than ?Mayweather-Pacquiao?? On account of cobras, vultures and brats in boxing, what better way to define avarice, brazenness and ?impunity? than May-Pac? Know where the great deluge will bring you. Remember, this ?fight? is touted as the ?richest? in sport?s history and the goal is to maximize money (purely) out of the matchup or cash cows - for that?s everything there is to it, and that?s what they made it to be. The debacle isn?t over. Don?t expect atheists to believe God and desire reform while they?re strong. Weigh the pros and cons. In the face of a gluttonous ?sport? that salivates before our face, everything that is being said and written about ?Mayweather-Pacquiao? seems for naught. Wherefore, to people who can afford: Watch the fight but save your money for loved ones, food or charity. Love the sport or love yourself and think of the majority who were deprived to watch the fight live. With the big cash you?re willing to shell out for a live ?Mayweather-Pacquiao? at the MGM or via PPV, go feed the hungry. Or go feed sharks. But for what sane reason some souls can be ?charitable? enough to be willing pigeons or victims? You can?t stand floating. Do them a solid: Watch the sham, but buy it not. Most fans and people are not carried away. Be the healing. renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com Click here to view a list of other articles written by Reni M. Valenzuela.  |
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