And so it has started. Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor is a real thing. It might seem utterly surreal and, to the cognoscenti, it no doubt is a sickening spectacle, but, be sure, this is actually happening. And boxing has nobody else to blame but itself.
Of course, that sport will not look inwards, because, well, it never has, telling its detractors for centuries that they simply do not understand the sweet science, that they insist on seeing only the blood and not the art. One thing this will not be is boxing?s fault. They will come over all snobbish about next month?s Las Vegas bout and blame us lot, the pay-per-view masses, for driving this absurd contest between a professional boxer who has never been beaten, and an opponent who has also never been beaten, but only because he has never professionally boxed.
