In an eagerly awaited and potentially brutal fight the world?s greatest featherweight, Marco Antonio Barrera, takes on the world?s greatest super-bantamweight, Manny Pacquiao, in a shootout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday night.
The fight has captured the imagination of the fans and tickets for the Golden Boy promoted fight have been flying out of the box office.
Barrera, 57-3 (40), is in the top three of a great many pound-for-pound rankings and it will be fascinating to see if he can raise his game like Floyd Mayweather Junior did a few weeks ago, or if he will be forced to the wire in his toughest fight to date, as Roy Jones was last Saturday. A spectacular win could well see the Mexico City native crowned the world?s greatest fighter, while a loss or close thing will probably leave Mayweather as the new No.1.
