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by Cliff Rold - It’s been almost 17 years since Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao won their first professional titles. Saturday night (9 PM EST/6 PM PST) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, they will face off for the title of best…
…best Welterweight in the world…
…best pound for pound fighter in the world…
…best professional pugilist of their era.
It’s been a long time coming and yet it feels like old times. Major media outlets are inundated with fight coverage. ESPN has coverage all day. Sports talk radio is talking about the fight on par with the NFL Draft.
It was like this more often once and yet never like this at all. In 1987, the Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight was so big that CNN broke in every three minutes to give a summary as the rounds unfolded. Leonard-Hagler didn’t have the fun, the atmosphere, that social media adds to the occasion.
Now, one can find someone to chat fight week with anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.
For those outside Las Vegas, it ends as it ever did: with friends, or with family, maybe a barbecue grilling and surely drinks spilled.
And then, the bell sounds.
Let’s go to the report card. [Click Here To Read More]
…best Welterweight in the world…
…best pound for pound fighter in the world…
…best professional pugilist of their era.
It’s been a long time coming and yet it feels like old times. Major media outlets are inundated with fight coverage. ESPN has coverage all day. Sports talk radio is talking about the fight on par with the NFL Draft.
It was like this more often once and yet never like this at all. In 1987, the Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight was so big that CNN broke in every three minutes to give a summary as the rounds unfolded. Leonard-Hagler didn’t have the fun, the atmosphere, that social media adds to the occasion.
Now, one can find someone to chat fight week with anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.
For those outside Las Vegas, it ends as it ever did: with friends, or with family, maybe a barbecue grilling and surely drinks spilled.
And then, the bell sounds.
Let’s go to the report card. [Click Here To Read More]
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