By Chris Williams: I’ve thought it over long and hard and decided not to purchase Saturday’s $49.95 bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez. I might have done it if the fight were going for $5 dollars, which is what I think its worth paying for. If they dropped it down to that price or better yet, made it for free, I would watch it then. But I’m not going to give money away to Mayweather for a fight like this.
This is a huge mismatch, and I’m not going to let myself get suckered into buying it like I’ve done with Mayweather’s previous fights against Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton. I knew going into those fights that they were going to be mismatches, because De La Hoya was shot and Hatton had never beaten a good fighter that wasn’t over the hill.
But I don’t want to see Mayweather beat up on a small guy like Marquez if it means that I have to dish out $49.95. That’s a lot of money for me and I could better use it to put gas in my car, by groceries or whatever. If they want to sell this fight, they need to find some other person willing to burn up their cash to see this mismatch.
I want to see competitive fights, not a fight between a lightweight fighter (Marquez) and a welterweight (Mayweather). That’s not sporting to me. I don’t care if Marquez has put on nine pounds of muscle, he’s still not a welterweight and doesn’t have experience facing other welterweights.
And like I said yesterday, I could care less to see the dull undercard bouts – Michael Katsidis vs. Vincente Escobedo, Chris John vs. Rocky Juarez. None of those fights interest me in the least. Now if they had put Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Arreola on the undercard, and did away the above fighters, that would be something that would interest me. At least we’d be guaranteed one good fight on the card, instead of none. John-Juarez is a mismatch waiting to happen, just like last time.
John will win easily. Katsidis will be stopped by Escobedo, which isn’t saying much because I see Escobedo being destroyed by the top fighters in the lightweight division like Ali Funeka, Marquez, Edwin Valero, Juan Diaz and Paulus Moses, to name just a few. What it comes down to for this fight was whether I’d be willing to pay big money to see the main event or not. And that just doesn’t interest.
I’ve seen that shadow before and I know what the future events will be with Mayweather-Marquez, and I don’t see anything good coming of that fight. Mayweather has another small guy to fight, only this time Mayweather’s opponent is not just small, but also and old to boot. I don’t care if Marquez is warrior and can take punishment. He’s slow, small and old and the fight is way too overpriced.
I think this fight is going to do poorly even with the huge marketing push that Golden Boy Promotions and HBO has done for it. They’ve given it a huge shot of adrenalin to put spark of life into what really is a dead carcass. It wouldn’t have taken this kind of work had Mayweather selected a better opponent to fight instead of Marquez.
Don’t get me wrong. I think Marquez is a great fighter, but he’s a lightweight, not a welterweight. So the fight against Mayweather is pointless because of the size differences between them.
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