The Victor Ortiz-Floyd Mayweather promotion is going into the home stretch.
There are just 11 shopping days now for boxing fans to get arena tickets or place their PPV or movie theater orders to see if the conqueror of Andre Berto can make it two fights back to back in which he has shocked an undefeated opponent.
While Ortiz’s twice off the deck April victory over Berto sent minor shock waves through the sport/business, a sensational victory over Mayweather would be be off the Richter Scale, boxing’s answer to a huge earthquake.
While Ortiz-Mayweather are winding down their hype train, the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao Chapter 3 event, slated for Nov. 12, just got rolling with a crowd estimated at 70,000 in Manila.
As I write this Monday night, laboring on Labor Day, JMM and MP are in Manhattan prepping for a Chelsea Piers morning presser.
This event leads off with crooner Pacman and real musician Dan Hill doing “Sometimes When We Touch.” Mayweather may think Pacman is dedicating the song to him in Las Vegas given that the two promotions are banging heads now.
