Good Article on GBP

[IMDAZED]

Two weeks have passed since Golden Boy Promotions pulled a nifty short con on the public with its "mystery weight" high jinks for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez mismatch. And over the course of those two weeks the boxing press, such as it is, went completely AWOL on the subject. A few blogs--The Queensberry Rules and Bad Left Hook among them--expressed disgust, but mainstream outlets were too busy thrusting their snouts into oversized cans of Gravy Train to work up a lather. Dan Rafael of ESPN.com touched on the topic last week, but placed most of the blame on Mayweather, as if a boxer handles media kits and press releases, prints up posters, finds a venue, drafts contracts, apprises the world at large about the size of the ring, etc. True, Mayweather was in on the hoax and often sounded like an amateur post-Structuralist deflecting questions about the weight, but the bottom line rests with the promoter of record.

When the real sources--Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya--were asked about the weight, they lied. Period.


Read the rest here: http://mvn.com/thecruelestsport/2009...-the-so-c.html

[The_Demon]

good read
green K sent

[BattlingNelson]

Thanks for this.

Of course hard core fans is aware of what was going on, but the reporter put a very good angle on the issue, by pointing at Shaefer and DLH.