By Junior Thompson: The ‘Super’ fight between the two best pound 4 pound fighters of our era, Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, has somehow not yet happened over revenue shares, blood testing, law suits and other squabbles.
If this was two drunks outside of a supermarket fighting over a can of lager then i would understand. But these are two top professional sportsmen fighting over a potential $50 million plus a piece!
Now, what if on May 7th “Sugar” Shane Mosley turns out to prove his critics wrong, and proves too big, too strong and too powerful for Pacquiao? As he knocks Pacman around the ring with the devastating power he showed against the much bigger and more durable Antonio Margarito, and finally finishes the job with his trademark two handed power hooks. Mayweather will be watching from his big boy mansion with his hands covering his eyes as if he has just witnessed his winning horse fall at the last jump. ‘Money’ will feel like a guy that has been offered to chip in half on a lotto ticket, only to turn the offer down and watch his friends numbers roll out one by one.
This is only hypothetical and I dont believe will happen, but is definitely a possibility in a sport where one punch can end a fight. If this turns out to be the case, all the gold dust from this mega fight will dry up and turn to ashes. Mayweather, with all his talent, will not be able to turn back the hands of time, but will be left to look back and squander the chance he had to cement his legacy by beating the 6 weight world champion phenom that is Manny Pacqiuao. Most of all he will have threw away the chance to make $50 million for, as he puts it, an ‘easy’ fight.
The seemingly declining sport of boxing needs this fight more than the two participants involved and the hungry wolves hanging around it with dollar signs in their eyes, ready to sink their teeth into the fortune it will produce.
Both Boxers will go down in history as exceptional fighters. But this fight would put the winner up there with the greats!
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