By Gerardo Granados: The fight between a two years retired former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and currently the biggest name and former UFC Champion Conor McGregor will take place next August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. And like it or not, no one seems to be able to stop talking about it. The promotional press tour was a total success, so I cannot and will never try to deny it. I don’t know why it was so successful, I only guess that the world has changed and now I am an old dog.
According to Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe, the fans wanted this fight, but to which fight fans was he referring to? To the boxing or the MMA fans, or was Ellerbe referring to the average sports fans who will buy anything at any ridiculous price. The one thing that I think that Ellerbe is right is that this is an entertainment fight but not so a real competitive meaningful boxing bout.
I believe that this fight wasn’t arranged for the boxing purist or the hard core fight fans; I do enjoy MMA fights but I am just a casual so I cannot say if the hardcore MMA fans are really interested in it. I am certain that this “exhibition” boxing fight will sell very well; in fact, it might be a financial success that could lead to another fight due to the interest that was shown by the ones willing to pay one hundred notes to watch a boxing master fight against a novice boxer.
How can this be billed as a boxing fight but many of the real loyal boxing fans dislike it? How can some argue that if Floyd beats Conor that he will break the iconic 49 wins no losses record? How come the best fights need to marinate for a long time and a fight between two fighting disciplines only needs the major media hype to make it happen?
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame only in you brainless sheep.
I want to make clear that I like Conor McGregor a lot, but I like him as an MMA fighter, not as a boxer. I believe that if he had invested time to learn the craft – technique, as other MMA fighters did in the past, that he could have made the transition to pro boxing; but with zero fights experience he doesn’t stand a chance to beat a very talented defensive wizard and elite counter puncher as Floyd is.
The major sports media puppets are doing their best to hype this bout and some of the on pay roll boxing media are also doing as told to justify and to mislead fans to believe that this is a legit boxing fight. There are many things that you can buy at the corner store but integrity isn’t one.
Conor is a great guy; he is eccentric, loud, funny and for sure entertaining. Floyd is loud, egocentric, and controversial; Mayweather has a loyal army of fanboys, whom I don’t know if they follow Floyd for his boxing talent or for his antics and his money. I see two fighters, from different fighting disciplines, with different personalities, also from different cultural back grounds that might even belong to two different generations of fans.
The younger man acting more as an adult (sort of) and the older adult behaves like a teen. Can this reflect a little of our society that sits upside down on his civil and moral valor? Maybe today is the future and madness is the new normal.
Since when showing off money replaced manhood? Nothing beats a good bad blood stare down. Yeah sure a trash talker brings more to the table than a Gennady “GGG” Golovkin type of personality, but since when boxing had wrestling hype type of press conferences?
I definitely see the madness in all of this. But what about the reader, is this normal or madness for you?