It doesn’t matter if you thought his technical knockout was clean or not. Floyd Mayweather Jr. came out on top against Victor Ortiz Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Now the question is, will Mayweather’s next opponent be Manny Pacquiao?
It’s time for the world’s two pound-for-pound best fighters to stop finding ways to not make this fight happen. It’s time for the two to stop being in denial, and realize they need to fight each other in order to complete their glorious careers. This fight shouldn’t really be about who earns the most in the end, or who is the toughest.
It should be about saving the sport of boxing.
The state of boxing is terrible. The sport doesn’t deserve greedy promoters desperately setting up tacky multi-city media events for a fight, or demanding fans to pay $70 to watch the bigger matchups. Boxing should be as great as a pastime as it was in our fathers and grandfathers’ times, not the nerdy little brother to the UFC.
Pacquiao, at 147 pounds, should make easier work of Juan Manual Marquez in their third bout against each other, since Marquez fought badly the last time, when he needed to gain weight for a welterweight fight. But after Pacquiao is finished, schedule the fight with Mayweather right away, stick it in Cowboys Stadium for max capacity, and watch the fireworks happen.
This is boxing’s last hope.
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