This may shock you.
This may amaze you.
But I’m fully supporting the Geezers Palace bout between retreads Roy Jones, last seen in a ring Down Under doing the Australian Crawl as his mouthpiece moved by itself out of his reach, and 45 going on 35 Weakened At Bernie’s Hopkins.
Oh, yeah, I’m behind this as one almost senior citizen to my soon to be fellow elders.
They’re fighting on HBO Pay Per Few, promoted by Golden Geezers Promotions, April 3. I hear the site is one of those retirement villages near Las Vegas.
(Hogan Photos/Golden Boy) Looks a filibuster breaking out instead of a fight for Bernie and Roy.
Michael Buffer will introduce it as not the main event but the coronary event.
All shuffleboard games and Mah Johng playing have been canceled so that this rematch (they fought many years ago, I know, but who can remember when with mental fog setting in) can be properly appreciated.
It’s a fully supported promotion and I understand the Nevada commission will permit both Roy and Bernardo to do their ring walk with walkers. Wheelchairs were considered but branded a possible safety hazard for ticket buying pedestrians.
With a nod to those for whom walking is not easy, old time rapper Big Daddy Kane will be brought in to sign the national anthem…if he can remember the words, that is.
In the event of a knockdown, the fighter who goes down is required to yell, “I’ve fallen…and I can’t get up!”
What’s the nickname, you ask?
I hear suggestions are still being taken but I may be leading the pack with my two picks, “Yesterday’s News” and “Senior Moments.”
Danny Green left crumpled legend Roy Jones down under when he went Down Under (Sportsnut.au)
My first suggestion was “Battered Performers Who Don’t Know The Meaning Of ‘Quit’ And Many Other Words.”
It’s not every fight where, going in, you know the old highlights will be better than the live match.
The TV price is cheap, a mere $50, or less than your next set of dentures, Gumby!
You can buy a new of choppers or pay for Jones-Hopkins II, you make the call, Geezers!
All the typical old codgers sponsors are being lined up–Grecian Formula, prune juice, Flomax, Viagra and Levitra and the others who target the “way over 40” crowd.
The promoters are not pursing regular boxing fans. They’re looking for those who are, ahem, irregular.
You might think I would mock this bout but nay, nay, nay, I won’t.
In a scary, perilous economic environment, a time when the Social Securty system is almost broke or already below zero, here’s two experienced fighters who are not tapping the public till, who are not looking for handouts.
Although they did have to give battered Jones a hand up when Danny Boy Green slammed him into submission in Manny Pacquiao like fashion in Oz.
Finally, we all have a patriotic duty to get behind this match.
Let’s not forget our old war heroes now.
So let’s rally fight fans and let’s show some for…for…for…for…Ray Johnson and Fernand Flopkins, great heroes of yesteryear.
Who says geezers can’t be pleasers?
This could be the greatest bout since Betty White stopped Abe Vigoda.
Give me your blocked arteries, your intenstinal problems and your sexual dysfunction…
Besides, when was the last time we had a PPV blockbuster between two guys who go into the ring with stents?
I said stents, not sense.
