It should come as no surprise.
You can hate him all you want. You have the right. If you really want to stand out from the crowd, you can even exercise your right to love him, but the result will still be the same.
Mayweather – Cotto will be yet another demonstration of the results of Mayweather’s extreme dedication, perseverence, hard work, and most of all, his talent.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a boxing genius. He’s a fistic technician the likes of which boxing has rarely witnessed.
He can dodge, duck, move, and counterpunch like no other athlete in the sport. He can land blindingly quick, accurate punches as he backpedals. He can slip a punch, disappear from a corner, and reappear in the middle of the ring. No matter. Even if he stays in the corner, he can scarcely be hit.
As pundits now seriously discuss his status as an all-time-great, his skills as compared to all his contemporaries are unquestionably superior in almost all scenarios.
It’s finally time to lay aside all thoughts of Mayweather being a fake and a fraud. No matter what happens to his career at this point, he’s already established himself as future hall-of-famer.
There was a time when Ali wasn’t thought of in a positive manner by the majority of fans. Now he truly is considered “The Greatest”.
While Mayweather’s antics turn many potential fans away, what will the boxing public think of him twenty-five years from now? What if he retires without ever losing a single fight?
Miguel Cotto is no slouch himself. He’s also a future hall-of-famer whose only losses were to a proven cheater who was eventually caught plaster-handed, and to another all-time-great – Manny Pacquiao.
Cotto avenged his loss in mighty fashion in his rematch with Margacheato. Another fight with Paquiao at Cotto’s preferred weight could prove to have a different outcome as well.
Cotto is extremely good. In fact, he might border on “great”. But Floyd Mayweather Jr. is already proven himself to be great.
Is he an all-time-great? Not to look past a completely capable Miguel Cotto, but a fight with Manny Pacquiao is what’s needed to answer that question.
Without that fight, his status will forever remain a question. Without that fight, he will live with the “what if” interrogations for the rest of his life.
Is he willing to live with those continual interrogations?
It appears that perhaps he is.
Why?
Because of piddly money issues?
Really?
It would be the most lucrative fight in the history of the sport, and there’s really a problem with the split?
Think about it.
Now we’ve finally gotten to the part that’s hard to believe.
