By Reynaldo Sanchez: The calmness, fewer frequent in the Floyd Mayweather field after his fight with Sugar Shane Mosley, it seems that it’s putting his face out and smiles at the boxer from Grand Rapids. MI. The last news, they suggest that ‘Money’ Mayweather will leave behind the legal problems that he has, and this situation, it indicates that perhaps this year we should see the undecided fighter expose his record (41-0-0) 25 KO’s.
The question is, who will be the rival chosen by ‘Money’ to make the annual fight that, from 2007 Mayweather carries out every year. In 2009, he faces the Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez, in 2010 he defeated Mosley and during 2011 the world of boxing hopes to see it facing Manny Pacquiao or Sergio Martinez.
The potential of facing any of these two fighter, are determined to the quantity of money can produce these fights. Also, another machine of money, the Filipino Pacquiao influences categorically on this matter. Let’s see.
Clearly, the fight that will make major money is Pacquiao-Mayweather, in spite of that. It’s the least probable fight of reaching. If we see the things with less emotion, we will understand that the boxing is a business, and due to this. Those who have invested money want to get as it is normal, huge benefits. Let’s forget the fear, which doesn’t exist in the real boxing. The important thing is the money. The victories and defeats are insubstantial, there are numbers that the historians were using to compare performances, and this will be only his real value.
The fights, in this stage for the elite’s boxers, are beyond crowns and world titles. Sergio Martinez affirms; “there comes a moment in which a boxer already does not need so much the world titles. At present, Pacquiao can fill a stadium although he fights with another boxer without having in line any world title. I hope to be soon in the same level, and possibly by the ends of 2011 be able to reach this status. ” The victories and defeats, they are translated in more dollars or less dollars.
On the other hand, those who without being Organizations as the WBC, IBF, WBA, or WBO, have an enormous interest in those fights, are in fact, who decide when, where and against whom the elites boxers fight. The TV nets came to the boxing of the hand of the PPV. Few people can remember now, when they transformed in the owners of the boxing, but they all know that they are.
Does this situation lead us to asking us, the Organizations are really necessary? If we take Martinez’s words as true. The response is NOT!! Well, that is arguable, not all the boxers are at the level of Martinez, Pacquiao and Mayweather, but, for fights as which these boxers might make between them, the crowns or titles are not necessary. There are at the end of the day unnecessary expenses. Why would Mayweather or Pacquiao have to give any money for fighting for titles or crown to those Organizations, if the reality is that they have no value for them? It would be illogical.
In this point, what fight has more chance to be a reality? As I can see, the most reasonable fight is the double M, Mayweather-Martinez. There are here many reasons to believe that the megafight Pacquiao-Mayweather is not possible and those reasons are the following ones.
First of all, the money, Floyd Mayweather will impose his conditions in a possible fight with the Argentinean. Surely he would take the biggest part of the cake.
The fight will be making in 154, not stranger weigh for Floyd, in the past he face Oscar de La Hoya in super welter, Martinez, a middleweight will lower from 160 to 154, a weigh more comfortable for Floyd.
In case of Martínez win, surely there will be revenge. This guarantees at least 2 big fights for Mayweather, and obviously a lot of money in both fights.
Nevertheless, it’s reasonable that mention for what I think that the fight Pacquiao-Mayweather will not be possible; first of all, the money of course. Pacquiao and Arum will not want to split the cake 50/50, this is the principal reason.
Then, the ant-idoping control, Mayweather will try to impose the type of control that he imposed to Mosley, they will not reach an agreement in this and nobody will yield in their position.
Now, the most important matter, Arum doesn’t want to negotiate with Floyd Mayweather, a defeat against Mayweather, does not guarantee revenge and the value of Pacquiao would diminish drastically, harming his business and profit.
Another possible fight Martinez-Pacquiao is little less than impossible. The weight is a determinant factor; I doubt that Martínez could lower less than 154. Sampson Lewkowicz, talk on this fight “ Martinez would have to cut a leg, to come to 147 ”
After all, I think that the fight that we will see at the end of 2011 will be the double M, Mayweather-Martínez. Possibly many think different and I don’t blame them, in spite of that, even a space stays for the mega-fight, but, from my perspective it is very small. We have as I see a big fight before the end of 2011, Mayweather and Martínez will be an extraordinary fight, the fans we want to see these fights, the best against the best, with titles or without them.
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