What a weekend. This was probably one of the greatest
weekends in sports history with the running of the Kentucky Derby as the favorite
won, the best fighter of this generation as the favorite won, and there were
five game 7’s on Saturday and Sunday where (personally all the teams I picked
to win) all the favorites won. It was one of my favorite weekends ever, and
considering a drastic change in the weather made me feel like crap so I could
stay home on Saturday to watch it all, it was pretty sweet.
The only real question I have now is who will Floyd
Mayweather fight next. He has 3 more left on his plate when it comes to the
countdown of his career and one of those needs to be Manny Pacquiao. It’s the
age old question at this point because we all know it needs to happen, but it
needs to happen for reasons now more than ever. We all know Mayweather is all
about the Money, but if he really wants to go out as being known as “the
greatest” he needs to face another great competitor of his era. He can’t be in
the same class as guys like Frazier, Ali, Foreman, or even Tyson if he doesn’t
have the balls to face the best. I know Manny is old, but so is Floyd, and with
now Ali calling out Floyd to face Pacquiao, he needs to abide to even be
considered in that discussion of the all-time greats.
I could see Mayweather agreeing to rematch with Maidana
because the fight truly was that close and entertaining, but do you really
think he wants to go through that hell again? He may face him, but the likelihood
is very low and he’ll probably face another guy on the up and up but not quite
mentally tough enough to hang making Floyd look defensively unstoppable once
again. We all know Floyd is all about the money, but he does have a legacy to
sew up here in the final year and a half and if he wants to face a bunch of scrubs
to finish out his career, you won’t here me beeping my horn and tooting the my
new booty for the greatness that Floyd possesses.
Floyd may as well be the Wichita
State Shockers of 2013-14… Playing a bunch of tomato cans throughout his
career, except he’s the one that set them up that way. The only way he can change that is the hand out invitations to Manny Pacquiao to fight at the MGM grand within the next 3 match-ups.
See you all next week.
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