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By Jake Donovan - Every so often there comes a fight so big, that it truly transcends the sport. All eyes are forced to gaze upon the spectacle, because after all, it’s all that anyone can talk about it.
Fans plan their vacations around the night, anxious to flock to the Vegas strip in anticipation of taking in what threatens to become an historic event.
By night’s end, the sport will never be the same. The result will leave people talking for weeks, with the evening’s winner in a prime position to take over the sport from the proverbial mountain on which he resides.
Then a week later comes a fight that sails completely under the radar, like this weekend’s light heavyweight rematch between Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver, airing live on HBO from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
If Manny Pacquiao’s history-making knockout over Ricky Hatton represented all that there is to be celebrated about the sport, then Dawson-Tarver II represents the other side – the side where we’re stuck with a fight nobody cares to watch, but comes about all due to a few legal lines in a binding contract.
The almighty rematch clause, which has forced many an undesirable rematch upon us in the past, is partially to blame for the 12-round bout which sadly represents this weekend’s biggest live offering. Then again, one could argue – out of sight, out of mind. [details]
Fans plan their vacations around the night, anxious to flock to the Vegas strip in anticipation of taking in what threatens to become an historic event.
By night’s end, the sport will never be the same. The result will leave people talking for weeks, with the evening’s winner in a prime position to take over the sport from the proverbial mountain on which he resides.
Then a week later comes a fight that sails completely under the radar, like this weekend’s light heavyweight rematch between Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver, airing live on HBO from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
If Manny Pacquiao’s history-making knockout over Ricky Hatton represented all that there is to be celebrated about the sport, then Dawson-Tarver II represents the other side – the side where we’re stuck with a fight nobody cares to watch, but comes about all due to a few legal lines in a binding contract.
The almighty rematch clause, which has forced many an undesirable rematch upon us in the past, is partially to blame for the 12-round bout which sadly represents this weekend’s biggest live offering. Then again, one could argue – out of sight, out of mind. [details]
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