My late and truly great grandfather, Lewis P. Corbett, had one drinking companion who played third base for the 1927 Yankees, greatest baseball team ever. His other cocktail pal claimed a portion of a world boxing title.
Big Lew was a pharmacist just like HBO?s ringside judge Harold Lederman. My grandfather’s best selling “prescription” were the bottles of bottlegged hooch he sold from under the count at Donovan’s Drug in the South End of Boston and in the Allston section. This item was extremely popular on Sunday due to antiquated Massachusetts law which kept the “package storoes (liquor stores) shut on Sundays. The brown paper bag was complimentary and I think frequent shoppers also got comped condoms.
I cannot not write or read a prescription but I have one to make a Nov. 8 Manny Pacquaio-Ricky Hatton megabout a reality.
The obstruction to such a fight is junior welterweight champ Paulie Malignaggi and his promoter, Lou DiBella.
Let Top Rank, Golden Boy and Team Hatton get together and divide the cost for what it will take to get contract holders Volcanic Lou and Brittle Hands to step aside as follows:
Give Yo Paulie One Million Smackers, just shy of his purse of $1.2 million if he were to fight Hatton in November. Write a check to Volcanic Lou for $300, 000 and have Golden Boy hand him one or two slots from their endless supply of HBO dates.
If Yo Lou and Yo Paulie want to stay busy let him defend his |IBF 140-pound crown against some tomato can type on the Pacman-Hatton undercard. Give Malignaggi a buck and a half ($150,000) to make him laugh. This is an optional item. Given the generosity herein, I wouldn?t promise the winner or the loser as Malignaggi?s next opponent.
There you have it. Voila, let?s have the press conference and sell those tickets. Hatton Vs. Pacquiao: War Of The Worlds.
This solution is just what the doctor ordered. Top Rank, GBP and Team Hatton fork over a mere pittance to make what could be a $25 million super bout.
Do the math, boys, and then pay Paulie and Lou.
