* Quote of the Week is a flashback from veteran referee Arthur Mercante Jr. to Zab Judah in the 2007 bout between Judah and Miguel Cotto: ?You were the champ at one time, shake it off. You can?t win on a disqualification.?
*After all the talk about Zab Judah finding the lord, dedicated, rejuvenated and despite faster hands, the keynote of his fight with Argentinean Lucas Matthysse was Judah trying to find the referee, feeling he was being potshoted, overreacting and looking like less like ?Super? Judah and more like ?Same Old? Zab.
*That being said Judah will always be much better than the legacy he leaves and at the same time could always have been better than the legacy he left.
*The ?Super Six? may not have worked out but there is no doubt that Glen Johnson is a super one.
*That being said who wouldn?t like to see Glen Johnson ? Bernard Hopkins, winner takes all, both go home.
*I take Hopkins over Jean Pascal and Johnson over at least Carl Froch in the remainder of the decimated Super Six field.
*Lucian Bute signing a contract with Showtime is not surprising considering his best competition is under contract with the network.
*Kelly Pavlik is better than an undercard and the criticism he is receiving for dropping out of the Manny Pacquiao card with a rib injury. I think he would give Bute all that he could handle.
*Most betting circles have Antonio Margarito as an over 3-t0-1 underdog to Pacquiao: fairly respective to a fighter who, two years ago, was known as one of the most feared in the sport and a top Welterweight.
*Alex Ariza looked, at the very least, ready to verbally explode on Pacquiao backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel show during the third installment of 24/7? tension in the Pacquiao camp is evident, whether it affects his fight game or not.
*Nevertheless, I pick Pacquiao the winner in under nine rounds by knockout. The unfortunate, unrelenting side-story to this fight is the disharmony, disarray and forthcoming disrepair of the Pacquiao camp. One does not have to look hard to see there is not much time left in the sport for Pacquiao.
*Pacquiao is an original: a boxer who transcends the sport, politics and carries on an important cultural tradition.
*If Pacquiao beats Margarito and Floyd Mayweather still does not come out of ?vacation?, Pacquiao has nothing else to prove.
*Picking Rafael Marquez in the fight against Juan Manuel Lopez took into consideration all the battle Marquez had fought in the ring, but not the toll it had taken on his body.
*Here?s to 2010′s end-of-the-year/best-of-the-year boxing: A promising start and a unfulfilling middle is at least leading to a action-filled end.
