By Glenn Findley: When Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Victor Ortiz was heralded over the blistering radio; I exclaimed an exasperating sigh, whilst simultaneously shaking my head at the disorderous and shambolic chaos of boxing in the year 2011. Our generational super-fight has been hampered once again, by none other than the main perpetrator; Floyd Mayweather Jr. I’m truly exhausted.
I really am; exasperated of the naivety that I initially refused to believe existed in the articulate boxing world. I’m genuinely dis-enchanted of boxing natives endorsing Floyd’s peculiar pronouncement to tussle with Victor Ortiz instead of Manny Pacquiao with “it’s a tune up fight for Pacquiao”. What? Another tune up wrangle like Mosely was for the subsequent onslaught of Pacquiao that never transpired…you mean another tune up tussle that was Marquez in anticipation of facing the non-event of Pacquiao. Floyd saunters off for sixteen months to years at a time, so quite evidently, every hostility he heralds as a retorting comeback will be categorized as a “tune up fight”.
I do wholeheartedly agree that Victor Ortiz is a “tune up fight” for Floyd alright; a tune up in anticipation of another eighteen month to two year lay off…in order not to exchange blows in the ring with the extraordinary, offensive, output fighting machine that is Emmanuel Dapridan Pacquiao.
As a bona-fide boxing fan; I’m incensed, enraged and furious more than anything else. We all should be. What we are now left with is Floyd and Manny once again combating inferior opponents, when all we covet is for them to violently engage between themselves and viciously mix it in the ring. This stirring conflict should already have come into realization; when both mutual fighters were at the mountain-top summits of their boxing prowess over the last two years. Make no mistake; both will be in close proximity to mid-thirties if they somehow finally engage each others legendary existences in skirmishing hostility anytime in the not-too-distant future. With that, befalls the hazardous peril of protracted reflexes, lingering reactions and decelerating speed gathering velocity at a looming rate of knots in the impending sands of time. They are only mortal after all; no matter how the boxing world may herald them both as Gods.
I’ve deciphered articles stating Mayweather now has “one up” on Pacquiao, opting to brawl with a youthful challenger in Ortiz, whilst Manny is taken on Floyd’s leftovers like we’re battling with blameless toys in the children’s playground. The brutal truth is; clashing with anyone other than Pacquiao is a step down for Mayweather. It is to fight a lesser pugilist than Manny Pacquiao. It is to take a step back; to retreat….to subordinate himself into the fists of an inferior opponent. Manny Pacquiao is objectively judged as the pre-eminent boxer on the global sphere; not Floyd hence there is no-one upwards in the Welterweight division for him to wage war with. He can literally scale no higher other than to ascent up the weight classes; whilst Mayweather once again refuses to skirmish with the finest in his division. Contemplate it…Floyd Mayweather will not exchange blows with the paramount boxer in his division when it is unfeasible for him to enhance his legacy further, other than attempt to vanquish Manny in the ring with a severe routing. Does he care?….I have grave misgivings heralding from a guy that bellows out; the fans don’t pay his bills and the fans don’t put his children through school with a bare-faced dis-regard for his fan-base that does indeed pay his bills and does indeed put his children through school.
Let’s be truthfully candid; Floyd Mayweather could gross at least, an astonishing three times more by skirmishing with Manny Pacquiao than Victor Ortiz in this; the most brutal and violent of crafts. For a guy that entitles himself “Money” and clasps the green quandary of loot in higher accordance than a hall-of-fame legacy; why on earth is he not doing everything in his sizeable power he possibly can to seize these stashed millions? It doesn’t make any sense from an economical standpoint; Mayweather’s vast American fan-base enables him to fight just about any boxing individual entity and still harvest his reaping multi-millions. Pacquiao is not American; and although at present is hugely popular, a transcending cultural icon even…
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