The biggest fight of the century, one of the biggest money makers in sporting history, Floyd money Mayweathrt vs Manny pacman Paquio.
Their is no doubting the prowess of these two fighters both are up among the greatest athletes to ever have graced the sport, both strong characters outside the ring and both lethal within, all other contenders have fallen to the fists of these two.
Fighters like Ricky Hatton the darling of England who in his prime was easily and ruthlessly dispatched by both Mayweather and Paquio or Oscar De la hoya, who, once beaten by Mayweather trained fighter after fighter claiming he had a blueprint to dethrone Mayweather a way in which to end his record, to this day that blueprint has not been discovered and with Floyds final fight coming up in september it looks as though he will step away from the ring with a perfect 49-0 record and go down in history as one of the greatest boxers ever.
Paquio on the other hand has lost that killer edge which saw him obliterate opponnents with his pitbull style approach in the ring, flurry upon flurry of precise aggressive punches knocked 59% of his opponents for six laying them flat on the canvas and giving him a better knockout ratio than mayweather.
And this displays why, a knockout that won the title of knockout of the year shows just how lethal Paquio can be.
The build up was intense every news outlet was flooded every single sports programme was focusing on the event the revenue it would generate, ridiculous sums of money, huge crowds wall to wall footage of training sessions, interviews and behind the scenes shows, the public was captivated.
Then may the 2nd came and these two behemoths of boxing stepped into the MGM Grand arena ring, people chanting beer flowing bets placed. rockstars, celebritys and the world watched on as the bell rang.
It went the distance and Mayweather won, although these two may be the fighters of the centuary this was not the fight of the centuary, and it ended with Mayweather convinvcingly winning and looking at the statistics afterwards its easy to see why, more of every type of punch landed the statistics where well and truly in Mayweathers favour.
But outside of the ring their is an aspect to these two fighter that has been neglected by the public the bad side which people dont seem to want to acknowledge.
Manny Paquio is a representative of the phillipines and is a shining beacon in his country, but has come out with some hugely homophobic statments such as when he claimed that gay people should be put to death. while this may just be due to the environment in which he was raised, this statment lost him much of his following in the LGBT community and shocked his fans in general.
Floyd Mayweather is a bad man and although a role model in the ring is far from a role model outside of the ring.
Mayweather is a serial beater of woman an animal to the one’s he is supposed to protect and care for, such as Josie Harris wife to three of his children, when Mayweather heard she was seeing other men, he at the time was seeing another woman, he went to her house at 4 in the morning confronted her and cracked her across the head with one of his prized fists a true champion he then twisted her arm and tore her to the floor, his children upon hearing Josies cries ran downstairs to this chaos, Mayweather Growled at Zion that if he called the cops he would beat him as well.
Hardly the actions of a man so revered by others, another incident where he met two of Harris’ girlfriends in the streets and proceeded to beat them with his fists is also well documented.
An egomaniac who owns the world and who feels it owes him something, he wents everything and knows how to go about getting it, he is proving to be a great buisness man and promoter a man of many talents.
A king in his own right, the king of boxing, he has enough money to buy what he wants to do what he wants, but money dosent buy you morals and a true sense of being proffesional.
American psycho may or may not be based on Mayweather (it’s not) but it is a testament to his life shrewed calculated aggressive and inspiring, but underneath lies a monster with an ego the size of the country he owe’s it all to, the most awe inspiring beater of women to ever have lived or as his son Koraun once said “a coward”.
Naoise Ó Gibne 