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By Mark Whicker - No one else in sports is Master and Commander.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. never loses. He makes the most money. He bets outrageously on sports, and successfully, and yet even gets to walk around the lower bowl of the Final Four.
He emerges for two fights a year, at most, and yet he carries boxing. Pay-per-view would probably be dead, as a practical medium, without him. He never has to leave the comforts of the MGM Grand, where a banner shows his picture and proclaims itself “Home Of The Champion,” no matter who is actually boxing there.
He samples the finer things lavishly and yet he doesn’t seem to get bogged down by the bad things. He even went to the joint for a while and came out unchanged and even emboldened.
He polarizes, but yet they idolize. More than anything, Mayweather is the hero of the street because he has his world in complete control.
You might say that’s easy to do when Mayweather is surrounded by five bodyguards that would dwarf any NFL offensive line. “Tighten up,” Mayweather told them when he left a gathering of reporters at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in L.A. Thursday and walked acorss the street to a public gathering at Pershing Square. But Mayweather soars above all the questions and contradictions. He is the man in charge. [Click Here To Read More]
Floyd Mayweather Jr. never loses. He makes the most money. He bets outrageously on sports, and successfully, and yet even gets to walk around the lower bowl of the Final Four.
He emerges for two fights a year, at most, and yet he carries boxing. Pay-per-view would probably be dead, as a practical medium, without him. He never has to leave the comforts of the MGM Grand, where a banner shows his picture and proclaims itself “Home Of The Champion,” no matter who is actually boxing there.
He samples the finer things lavishly and yet he doesn’t seem to get bogged down by the bad things. He even went to the joint for a while and came out unchanged and even emboldened.
He polarizes, but yet they idolize. More than anything, Mayweather is the hero of the street because he has his world in complete control.
You might say that’s easy to do when Mayweather is surrounded by five bodyguards that would dwarf any NFL offensive line. “Tighten up,” Mayweather told them when he left a gathering of reporters at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in L.A. Thursday and walked acorss the street to a public gathering at Pershing Square. But Mayweather soars above all the questions and contradictions. He is the man in charge. [Click Here To Read More]
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