Tweet
BY MICHAEL KATZ - Let’s see, since we last got together, the middleweights and heavyweights went out of their way to prove that boxing’s new glamour divisions might well be junior fly and super bantam. No knock on Kelly Pavlik, except he doesn’t seem to have many viable opponents at 160 pounds, but if Wladimir Klitschko is the best heavyweight in the world, then this planet has more serious problems than global warming. Thankfully, there are always guys around like Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez to remind us that good things come in smaller packages.
And not at welterweight, because the titular leader at 147-pounds is more interested in rassling than in real drama. If Vince McMahon really is giving Floyd Mayweather Jr. $20 million, than my Argentine back-breaker (who else remembers?) should come out of mothballs. And if there really are 47 million rassling fans in this country, Wladimir Klitschko is not that serious a problem.
But why complain when Vazquez and Marquez, two Mexican 122-pound stal*****, are set Saturday for an Act III that should conjure memories of Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano, Rid**** Bowe and Evander Holyfield, Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward and, of course, Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales. [details]
And not at welterweight, because the titular leader at 147-pounds is more interested in rassling than in real drama. If Vince McMahon really is giving Floyd Mayweather Jr. $20 million, than my Argentine back-breaker (who else remembers?) should come out of mothballs. And if there really are 47 million rassling fans in this country, Wladimir Klitschko is not that serious a problem.
But why complain when Vazquez and Marquez, two Mexican 122-pound stal*****, are set Saturday for an Act III that should conjure memories of Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano, Rid**** Bowe and Evander Holyfield, Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward and, of course, Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales. [details]