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By Cliff Rold - The best division in boxing has a calendar that doesn’t live up to it (so far) for the first half of 2008. That’s not to say that the top Welterweights don’t have plans for that time period. They just aren’t the sort of plans that can put fans on the edge of their seats in the days leading to a fight.
The World Welterweight champion (Floyd Mayweather) is taking a vacation while tentatively scheduled for some expensive sparring in September. Its number one contender (Miguel Cotto) is fighting someone from The Contender (Alphonso Gomez). The best fight booked so far is a re-run of a five round blowout (Antonio Margarito-Kermit Cintron) that is more commendable for Cintron’s willingness to take it than it is for its expected merits. That the winner of Cintron-Margarito II is likely to face Cotto later in the year is reason for excitement but a long stretch down the road from happening just yet.
The remaining match-ups aren’t much better.
There could be a solution. Currently, two of the division’s most bankable names have empty dance cards. Dancing together, they could provide a quality passage of the time until the division moves on from the current calendar lull. [details]
The World Welterweight champion (Floyd Mayweather) is taking a vacation while tentatively scheduled for some expensive sparring in September. Its number one contender (Miguel Cotto) is fighting someone from The Contender (Alphonso Gomez). The best fight booked so far is a re-run of a five round blowout (Antonio Margarito-Kermit Cintron) that is more commendable for Cintron’s willingness to take it than it is for its expected merits. That the winner of Cintron-Margarito II is likely to face Cotto later in the year is reason for excitement but a long stretch down the road from happening just yet.
The remaining match-ups aren’t much better.
There could be a solution. Currently, two of the division’s most bankable names have empty dance cards. Dancing together, they could provide a quality passage of the time until the division moves on from the current calendar lull. [details]
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