Pacquiao-Mayweather Jr: Money For Nothin’
No One Puts Daddy In A Corner
How’s that old brain-teaser go? The one about, “I’m afraid I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son?” Did that involve boxing at all? Because if it did, it would really help this blog introduction.
Greatness Has No Face
Two weeks ago, heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko defeated Mexican-American challenger Chris Arreola for the WBC title. The younger of the two Klitschko brothers, Vitali has successfully defended his title eight times in a 13-year career that has included a 4-year retirement. None of his last 10 victories have gone the full 12 rounds and he sent Arreola out of the ring crying.
Yet, none of this has been written up in the media as achievements for Klitschko, so much as it has been chalked up to the anemia of boxing’s heavyweight division. Klitschko is good, in other words, but he’s nowhere near as dominant as his record would indicate.
Acting Like Fighters
When Cung Le began pre-empting his Strikeforce middleweight title defense to further his acting career, the critics – although frustrated – remained patient with him. Le was a character the likes of which the MMA had not yet seen. But since he defeated Frank Shamrock 18 months ago, a shift has developed that has slowly but surely eroded mixed martial arts. More and more fighters are keeping one eye on fighting and the other on greener pastures, namely Hollywood.
That’s a problem for a young sport still finding its footing.
Show Of Hands: Who Wants To Watch MMA Fighters Take Showers?
Mixed martial arts may still be a burgeoning sport, but that doesn’t mean that sophisticated methods of cheating haven’t already filtered deep into it.
