Is the “May-Per-View” tournament about to take place? Can Showtime and NBC execute their network boxing plans to success? Is Amir Khan expecting to remain the WBA champion without a rematch against Lamont Peterson? Find out the answers to all of these questions and more in this week’s “From Pillar to Post”!
The Money May Final Four Begins February 11th
We already know that the big fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao isn’t going to happen, not now and likely not ever, and we can probably guess that Saul Alvarez may be the most logical option for Mayweather’s May 5th appearance, but is his opponent for a possible winter clash already being lined up? Next month, we will have two fights being staged by Golden Boy Promotions in where the last man standing could potentially be opposite Mayweather. Those fights are the highly-anticipated rematch between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto on February 11th and Devon Alexander vs. Marcos Maidana on February 25th. Both fights are fixing to be excellent bouts, and so would the prospective matchup of the winner of those two fights in the summer.
Each of the four fighters involved have some connection to Mayweather, whether it be a former challenger in Ortiz, the fighter originally considered for last year’s fight in Berto, the #1 challenger to Floyd’s WBC belt in Alexander, or a fighter who has gotten personal endorsement from Uncle Roger in Maidana. Though none of these guys will make much of a fight for Mayweather if one of them do make their way across the ring from him, just the prospects of fights to come following this formula is more than enticing.
