Remember the old Nike commercials featuring Bo Jackson where he declares ?Another day, another hobby?? (I know they were from about 1986 or 1987 because Danny Glover?s character, Roger Murtaugh in ?Lethal Weapon 2,? was musing about it) In boxing, it?s more like, ?Another year, another Floyd Mayweather fight.? Yes, Our Sport?s favorite villain is back for his not-quite-annual outing, this time against welterweight titlist Victor Ortiz.
I?d be a fool to think any fan reading this needs me to sketch out the particulars regarding our participants so I?ll go into what I think are truly important here, my elements of intrigue.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is and always will be a complex individual, a living, breathing contradiction. The annoying brat one day, the charitable, contemplative champion the next. For all the good and bad, we in the media- print, internet and television- are mostly to blame for the nurturing of the fighter fans love to hate?or hate to love. From bloggers to full-fledged veteran scribes to premium cable vehicles like HBO?s ?24/7,? the phrase ?We?ve created a monster? has never held more weight. At the same time, no other individual in boxing today has captured our attention like Mayweather, save for Manny Pacquiao.
