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BY MICHAEL KATZ - While I can’t speak from personal experience, sometimes being the best at something entails unreasonable expectations. For example, it has been written, elsewhere, that even if Floyd Mayweather Jr. knocks Ricky Hatton from the ranks of the unbeaten Saturday, to go along with his earlier victory over future hall of famer Oscar de la Hoya, he should not be considered for fighter of the year because, after all, he was SUPPOSED to win these fights.
Mayweather, being generally regarded as the best boxer in the world, is SUPPOSED to win every fight. Logic thus dictates that the best boxer in the world can NEVER be fighter of the year.
Who says life has to be fair?
Maybe Mayweather doesn’t deserve any consideration for fighter of the year until he gets in a real fight. Maybe that too is unfair because one major reason he doesn’t get into the kind of scraps beloved by the blood-thirsty is that he is too superior to his opposition.
Besides, he flaunts his wealth, talks nonsense and says he’s better than Sugar Ray Robinson (well, yes, only because Ray has been dead 18 years, though I still think Mayweather doesn’t punch as hard). He’s so easy to root against, which of course makes terrific economic sense because Mayweather, despite an often crowd-displeasing style, has now become boxing’s biggest draw. In his home town of Las Vegas, he will probably encounter more fans at the MGM Grand this Saturday of the Manchurian challenger. [details]
Mayweather, being generally regarded as the best boxer in the world, is SUPPOSED to win every fight. Logic thus dictates that the best boxer in the world can NEVER be fighter of the year.
Who says life has to be fair?
Maybe Mayweather doesn’t deserve any consideration for fighter of the year until he gets in a real fight. Maybe that too is unfair because one major reason he doesn’t get into the kind of scraps beloved by the blood-thirsty is that he is too superior to his opposition.
Besides, he flaunts his wealth, talks nonsense and says he’s better than Sugar Ray Robinson (well, yes, only because Ray has been dead 18 years, though I still think Mayweather doesn’t punch as hard). He’s so easy to root against, which of course makes terrific economic sense because Mayweather, despite an often crowd-displeasing style, has now become boxing’s biggest draw. In his home town of Las Vegas, he will probably encounter more fans at the MGM Grand this Saturday of the Manchurian challenger. [details]
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