on the surface it was a mugging, but at the core that was boxing in its purest form and I loved it ... Floyd "Money" Mayweather is the Detroit Pistons of boxing ... he'll bore most people, but hey, I guess that means winning and domination is boring ... sure, Juan Manuel Marquez was too small, too slow at 147 and completely outclassed, but you can't take away the fact that Floyd is a boxing genius ...
I watched the fight at a Boston Pizza in the hometown B-Town, with Anthro's bro Mags ... now the Floyd fight was being broadcast on side-by-side screens with UFC's PPV ... and the crowd was pro-UFC, I could tell because everyone was into each of the bouts ... but when the Money May fight started, something strange happened, nobody gave a sh!t about the UFC card, and with the exception of two people, the attention shifted to boxing ... DAMN RIGHT!!! ... I'm glad that I watched the fight there, and seeing the two sports broadcast side-by-side, because the difference in skill level was so evident that even Ray Charles could've seen it ... every fight on the UFC card, turned into a stand-up toe-to-toe bout and I could write a dissertation on how horrible it was ...
veering a bit ... I should've expected it, being in B-Town and all ... it was a high school reunion of sorts, because I ran into a few people at Boston Pizza ...
back to Floyd ... he's definitely back and hasn't missed a beat ... but in order to solidify his legacy in mine and most people's eyes he has to defeat "legit" opponents such as Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley ... I missed it, but apparently the latter came in the ring after tonight's fight and challenged Money May, eventually leading to the two being separated ... I never agree with Max Kellerman, but he hit the nail on the head when he said the biggest "mega fights" that can be made are any permutation of Mayweather, Pacquiao and Mosley ... isn't that what I've been saying for months? ... talent-wise, I think Floyd and Manny are the best, but I honestly think Mosley can beat them both ... but Pacquiao/Mayweather is what everyone wants to see ... and despite what happened to Marquez tonight (nice knowing you Juan, by the way), Pacquiao is a different monster all together ...
tonight affirmed one thing for me, boxing is the number one combat sport and it's not going anywhere ... I don't care what the final PPV numbers turn out to be ... HBO Boxing put out the better product tonight, no question ...
~J-Smooth~
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