Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:To the curious onlookers and housewives. This was not just another match, it was billed as 'the match of the century' for a reason. It pitted 2 of the best ever pound for pound fighters of their generation, to get here, FM and MP had to fight for accumulated 40 years against some extremely gifted oppos. During this fights we purists watched without the help of the curious public and housewives. Some of those bouts had mismatches that resulted in spectacular knockouts and entertainment that some here expected. We purists enjoyed it all but also prepared us for this fight. Knowing very well that this fight would be about legacy and nothing else.
FM was fighting MP both expert pugilists and expecting the fight to be loose and entertaining is naive. Boxing has never been a mainstream sport and that will never change. Occasionally there will be fighters like Ali, Tyson and FM who bring the game to centre stage but thats an anomaly.
I will speak as one of the curious onlookers who was conned into missing precious sleep to watch this joke of a fight. Fight of the Century is what it was billed to be but now that it is done I doubt that even the purists that you speak for will agree that it deserves that, it never came close. It was a great marketing ploy with a buildup and pay purse that broke all records but to attribute that to the greatness of the fighters especially the winner Floyd Mayweather is to still cling to the truth of the salespitch after we have all bought and be thoroughly disappointed.
Floyd Mayweather may be the best of his generation but that is because this generation does not have fighters. He has a 48-0 record over a period of 19 years which is great for him to avoid injury and make a lot of money so he is a a great businessman and a a smart fighter but a great fighter is a title he will have a hard time earning.
His winning record is good but it pales to that of Sugar Ray Robinson who once went on a 91 match winning spree with 69 knockouts. He is a talker and even thinks himself greater than Ali but Ali would tell him he is not as pretty nor is he as smart but aside from that Ali represented a cause greater than himself for which he will be remembered long after he is dead.
Mayweather is a winner and nobody will ever take that from him but let him not bother us again with another hyped contest ever again and his small boy ego that makes us want to see him beaten...... well now that I have said it that is the one quality for which he exceeds all past champions..... he has created a great desire for people to want to see him beaten and for that the world will make him the richest boxer ever.