If this doesn’t end the world of boxing, at least as football type supersport for the masses, nothing will. Not only was the Floyd Mayweather Manny Pacquiao over hyped, over priced on Pay Per View, but Time Warner crashed and burned, and the fight itself was a drag. A really really big job poorly done.
If the $400 Million profits for HBO and SHO prove anything, it is they will have a hard time repeating. Floyd kept Manny at arms length and clinching when he couldn’t for the evening, while taking solid pot shots from time to time, to mass up the rounds in the dreary, boring, scientific, defensive masterpiece of meh.
Beiber is one of the boys for sure but only while surrounded by bodyguards. The last time I saw him, at MSG, he was pulling muscle from the shell, and claiming he was the strongest guy on the stage. His band seemed to be agreeing between gritted teeth though at least in one sense Bieber was right: the man who signs the check is always the strongest guy on stage. So I guess that’s what Beiber was doing with the champ.
