Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Pacquiao Mayweather

At this point does it really matter?  Mayweather is almost 40 so if he loses age might be blamed for that.  Pacquiao has obviously lost his killer instinct and people will look to the Marquez KO to blame. Personally I think that ship has sailed and that fight will never be the same.
Don't get me wrong ill order it and enjoy it, but deep in my mind I will wonder what would of been.  What if in 2011 Floyd wasn't a bitch about everything and had just fought Pac 50-50 or 60/40 split with the winner taking the bigger chunk.  I mean why the fuck not? They both will make over 60 million, in a time of a recession, to fight for 12 runds.  Their lives will be at risk, but this is what they both have trained for their entire life.  For this moment.
Imagine it's 2010, Floyd is fresh from his retirement and has easily defeated, Manny Pacquaio arch nemesis, Juan Manuel Marquez.  Meanhile, Manny Pacquiao  just demolished Miguel Cotto last November. All of a sudden we are the lucky few who will  witness our "the fight of the century".  We will tell our children and our grand children about this fight.  For five years the boxing landscape has been leading to this.  The talented All American prodigy who was robbed in the Olympics and looking  for a fight to cement himself as the greatest of all time, versus the third would country champion a man who's literal hunger created a path of carnage and destruction to the top.  How could it not happen? I mean why the fuck not? They both will make over 60 million, in a time of a recession, to fight for 12 rounds.  Their lives will be at risk, but this is what they both have trained for their entire life.  For this moment.
This was going to be our generations Fraiser-Ali, Duran-Leonard,Balboa-Drago, Stone Cold-The Rock but ......
Then Mayweather chose to fight Mosley, Ortiz, Cotto, blah blah blah and Manny's explosive speed and killer instincts were wasted on Clottey, Margarito and a bunch of dude's not named Mayweather who all they did was block and tried to make it through 12. Well
except for Margarito who actually tried to fight back, and he suffered a broken orbital bone and an early career exit for his troubles.
Flash forward to  the end of 2014.  
 Again, there is talk about the big fight again, and it doesn't really matter.  Yea everybody will cash out and it will be in the history books as Pacquiao Mayweather but who the fuck cares?  No matter the outcome in the back of our head we know this is only a small taste of what could of been.  It'll be like missing Thanksgiving dinner because of a stupid fly delay, and finally eating thanksgiving dinner the next morning. It's good, but you know that shit would of been better last night.
Even at this point I don't think Floyd takes the fight. 

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