Old time cowboy movies, sometimes referred to as horse operas, usually had nifty titles.
“Bad Day At Black Rock.” “Gunfight at the OK Corral.” “Boot Hill.”
Before the flick unspooled, you knew you would see the good guys and the baddies mixing it up in wild shootouts, quite often inside of or right outside the Dry Gulch Saloon.
That’s what gave the Western classics such rich historic flavor and substance.
There really was a Bucket Of Blood saloon in silver mining Mecca Virgin City, looming high above the Carson (Nevada) Valley and not far from Reno. It’s still there.
We used to frolic there during my college years. There were those nights when the Rumpus Room in Reno had to be detoxified, you see.
On Saturday May 1, at the Manadalay Bay in Las Vegas, it’s going to be a bad night for the guy wearing the white hat.
His name is Shane Donte Mosley and his fight against the villain Floyd Mayweather Jr. (he wears the black like hat Johnny Ringo or Pecos Bill used to) is not going to a bumpy ride.
As a public service to all you Mayweater haters, and I know you are legion, you’re being setup like the Boomtown sheriff who walks into a trap and gets filled with lead.
Only this Congressional candidate from Sarangani can possibly derail the Mayweather Express Train (Pacland)
This won’t be a fight, it’s going to be an ambush.
Hide the women and children, I say.
Mosley, who turns 39 in September, is being used as Mayweather fodder and he has zero chance of winning this bout.
There I said it, zero. Maybe I should make it subzero.
It’s not his fault but a quick look at Mosley’s last eight opponents reveals why he will go into a panic and be continually frustrated when Mayweather starts with the shoulder rolls and the dipsy doodle defensive techniques he has perfected while mowing down 40 victims.
Mosley will be Victim No. 41.
Yes, Mosley stopped robotic Antonio Margarito in nine rounds. What relevance has that to fighting Mayweather?
None.
Mouth That Roared: Mayweather will be crowing after he squashes older man Mosley on May 1 (AP Photo)
Ricardo Mayroga, much more crude, unpolished and less disciplined that Margocheato, he got halted in 12.
Are you seeing a pattern of foes who bear no ring resemblance to Money May?
Miguel Cotto, who can box some and punches well, nipped Mosley by decision.
Mosley outpointed lefty slickster and often avoided Luis Collazao, another opponent with no relevance to L’il Floyd.
