Monday, May 7, 2012

Marc on Mayweather

I don't like him. I can't even give any concrete reasons why, but I just don't. His arrogance probably has a lot to do with it. And the fact that he likes to beat up women doesn't help either (Have fun during your 90 days in jail buddy). He says a lot of stupid things, including his claim that MMA was started by white people because they can't dominate boxing. Yeah, on the one hand you can praise him for being "in control" of his finances. On the other hand you can call him a micromanager. Telling two of your people that they aren't allowed to go to the gym again until they find a betting receipt that you were dumb enough to leave in the pocket of your sweat pants - now that's quality leadership. I can't call myself a boxing fan, so I'm not even close to qualified to talk about who would win a Pacquiao/Mayweather fight. I do, however, think that Mayweather is a smart enough guy to know who NOT to fight. Once you have a loss under your belt, you don't make the money that he's making now. He knows that, so he doesn't want to fight someone who can beat him. In fact, the controversy about him NOT fighting Pacquiao generates money in and of itself. His smokescreen about drug testing and claiming that Pacquiao could not have won in so many weight classes without performance enhancing drugs apparently doesn't apply to his own success in at least five weight classes. He's scared to fight Pacquiao, because he doesn't want to lose. He also doesn't want to deal with someone who demands money in the same way that he does. In the end, I'm pretty confident that Mayweather will end up broke, because sooner or later his income will diminish and his gambling habit will get the best of him. Once he's no longer proving his manliness in the ring against opponents, he'll have to try to prove it with ridiculous bets (which he will eventually lose) or by continuing to beat up on women. It won't end well for Mayweather. He's no Muhammed Ali or Oscar de la Hoya.

1 comment:

  1. Ali and De La Hoya in the same breath? The champ of all champs v. the marketer of all marketer. DLH has made a better and bigger name for himself as a promoter than he did a fighter...

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