It’s been quite a spectacle over at the Pacland forumers site, with one like-minded group trying to “boycott” (as if they could) the fistic advance between Floyd “Pretty Boy” Mayweather and Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez this September 19 at the Las Vegas MGM Grand.
The ad hoc movement isn’t confined in that raucous forum alone. It seems that the nearer “Numero Uno vs. Number One” gets, the more intensified the activity is in various news commentary. The rest of the majority seem to throw up their hands in the air and mentally assign them to the category of “nutjobs” or whatever label they can come up with.
Yes, Marquez and Mayweather will not detract from their fighting styles. Technically, counterpunching is boring. Waiting. Running. Not getting hit. The style requires mental savviness, diligence, and patience to dish out damage when the opponent least expects it.
True, it does not have the fireworks of Manny Pacquiao’s style. Even Mexicans resent Marquez’s counterpunching propensities, as they claim “Mexicans do not fight that way”.
I will give you that.
But, puh-leeez. Get real. While many indeed agree that the resulting match would be a relatively “boring fight” — due to the style similarities between all-time greats — no one would doubt that this fight will be a very significant one.
The results I mean.
One would probably expect to: 1) yawn, 2) go back to your lunch, 3) heed the call of nature in the middle of the action, when you crowd yourselves at a local PPV venue. But no doubt there will be anticipation to finally know as to who deserves to challenge Pacquiao’s pound-for-pound crown. No matter how “boring” these fighters are, at the end of that fight, one of them understandably has all the right to tug at Manny shorts begging for a shot at the P4P mantle.
Face it. You’re secretly itching to watch a replay later on while denouncing that in the forums. Heck, you may even have a PPV ticket in your pocket right now.
