This is the first fight, the first big one, in a new era.
This is the post Mayweather era, friends, and auditions are beginning now on NEXT….
Dust will settle, after it flies, and a new guy will anoint himself the lead dog in the sport, the new leader who represents, symbolically, the status of the sport as a whole.
(I say guy because the sport isn’t currently set up to accomodate a woman as lead dog, as the MMA sphere right now enjoys…but we will get there.)
Seems like a lot of folks are tabbing the fighting pride of Kazahkstan, who gloves up and looks to take down David Lemieux on Saturday night in NYC, at Madison Square Garden, to be the takeover leader, the one to usher in a new atmosphere.
Gennady Golovkin, a fella who delightfully mangles the English language, and also synaptic connections in the brains of foes, is front of the pack to make Mayweather a distant memory; Floyd, so-called “TBE,” who will be seen as a perfect representation of a time when excesses were still more applauded than they morally and spiritually should have been…a period when in our united states, income inequality and a celebration of wealth accumulation were but two symptoms of a nation and world in a state of decline reversal…and concurrently a rising and spreading understanding that change can and must happen, after a 40 year drift towards “values” that have been championed by a cynical crew of shrewd operators who prize profits and power over people.
Golovkin, who turns 34 next April, tells us he is NOT businessman first.
In fact he embraces the way it used to be, when they fought, yes, to put food on the table, but more so for personal and national pride, to prove worth to self and to entertain the masses. He better than Mayweather acts as a living metaphor for our universal struggle, to make our way through an existence which mandates we stay ready to fight, get knocked down, get back up, lick our wounds and buck up and put our hands up and keep on keeping on.
Golovkin can help us move on from a time when the sport was held hostage by a guy with undeniable talent, but such severe scarring as a human being, that he was able to function and flourish best only by being divisive. Golovkin is a guy who can bring all us fight fans together, on a same page.
Here is a release which went out which contains quotes from a Tuesday media workout, featuring 3G, the likeable fellow-throwback Lemieux, and the guy who might well be the best active pugilist on the planet, the fighting pride of Nicaragua, “Chocolatito” Gonzalez.
