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2015/08/05 11:19PM
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There is really no opponent Floyd Mayweather could have chosen Cu... JenkinsJerseyfor what he says will be his final bout on Sept. 12 who would have been greeted with excitement or satisfied the majority of boxing fans.
The only one who could possibly have generated large-scale enthusiasm as a Mayweather opponent was Gennady Golovkin, the WBA and interim WBC middleweight champ and one of boxing’s best finishers.
By Tuesday, however, when Mayweather announced that he’d face Andre Berto at the MGM Grand in a Showtime pay-per-view bout, Golovkin had already signed to face David Lemieux in October.
Mayweather is 38, and wasn’t going up to middleweight at this stage of his career. It was never realistic,Brandon TateJerseygenerates more boxing talk than any other fighter.
But it misses a larger point.
Just think back to about 10 years ago. On Nov. 19, 2005, Mayweather fought Sharmba Mitchell in Portland, Ore., on HBO in what would turn out to be his last non-pay-per-view fight.
In his debut at welterweight, Mayweather was his usual excellent self and stopped Mitchell, a former 140-pound world champion, in the sixth round.
At that point, Mayweather was clearly the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, though he was far from a unanimous choice. But it was laughable to regard him as boxing’s biggest attraction, as he clearly is today.
He had made his [url=http://www.nflbengalsofficial.com/Authentic-Brandon-Thompson-Jersey]http://... debut a few months earlier with a one-sided destruction of Arturo Gatti in Atlantic City, N.J. The bout sold well, hitting 369,000 sales, but it didn’t hint at the titanic figures Mayweather would eventually produce.
He’s fought 13 times on pay-per-view since the Mitchell fight. He’s surpassed 900,000 sales 11 times, gone over a million eight times, bettered two million three times and set the record in May when his bout with Manny Pacquiao sold 4.4 million.
When Mayweather left the Rose Garden after dispatching of Mitchell that night in 2005, though, no one could reasonably have expected what was to come.
The only one who could possibly have generated large-scale enthusiasm as a Mayweather opponent was Gennady Golovkin, the WBA and interim WBC middleweight champ and one of boxing’s best finishers.
By Tuesday, however, when Mayweather announced that he’d face Andre Berto at the MGM Grand in a Showtime pay-per-view bout, Golovkin had already signed to face David Lemieux in October.
Mayweather is 38, and wasn’t going up to middleweight at this stage of his career. It was never realistic,Brandon TateJerseygenerates more boxing talk than any other fighter.
But it misses a larger point.
Just think back to about 10 years ago. On Nov. 19, 2005, Mayweather fought Sharmba Mitchell in Portland, Ore., on HBO in what would turn out to be his last non-pay-per-view fight.
In his debut at welterweight, Mayweather was his usual excellent self and stopped Mitchell, a former 140-pound world champion, in the sixth round.
At that point, Mayweather was clearly the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, though he was far from a unanimous choice. But it was laughable to regard him as boxing’s biggest attraction, as he clearly is today.
He had made his [url=http://www.nflbengalsofficial.com/Authentic-Brandon-Thompson-Jersey]http://... debut a few months earlier with a one-sided destruction of Arturo Gatti in Atlantic City, N.J. The bout sold well, hitting 369,000 sales, but it didn’t hint at the titanic figures Mayweather would eventually produce.
He’s fought 13 times on pay-per-view since the Mitchell fight. He’s surpassed 900,000 sales 11 times, gone over a million eight times, bettered two million three times and set the record in May when his bout with Manny Pacquiao sold 4.4 million.
When Mayweather left the Rose Garden after dispatching of Mitchell that night in 2005, though, no one could reasonably have expected what was to come.
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