Las Vegas $$$ Christmas in September: Floyd, Canelo, Garcia and Matthysse Previewed
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Las Vegas, NV (September 12th, 2013)– Goes the old adage, somebody’s got to win, and somebody has to lose. Now make an educated guess and choose. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the best fight in town, and Las Vegas, Nevada, is the town. Can two fighters caught up in the zeal of promotion really put up a show featuring a fight well-prepared for? Not in the same way as a full eight week camp undisturbed by traveling to promote the ring war, as in Thomas Hearns versus Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
USA Showtime, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions present a nine bout boxing card broadcast on Pay-Per-View on Saturday, September 14, 2013, from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Floyd versus Canelo promises to make Las Vegas Christmas in September, as the bout was sold out in less than 24 hours, and the town is bound to be packed with buzz and excitement with nary a ticket available anywhere to watch the bout live. Las Vegas becomes a gambler’s paradise. Place your bets, folks, talkin’ bout money, people-money, money, money-just the way the O’Jays sing the Floyd tune. Money can buy some people all the time, got to have it. This megabout is a $$$$$$ bout.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has always been the smarter fighter, if not the better one. With so many fighters out there hungry for the magical payday Fighting Floyd provides, Floyd can pick and choose whatever opponent he wants, so nobody really looks for him. Floyd Mayweather is the first fighter worthy to be categorized ‘super fighter’, which differs from the paper world title ‘super champion’ in boxing. Simply put, Floyd and his foes are one cut above the rest.
Floyd, now 44-0, 26 knockouts, Las, Vegas, Nevada, flirts with destiny if he hopes to match Rocky Marciano’s pristine 49-0 heavyweight record in the lower weight classes between welterweight and middleweight. It all boils down to game plan prepared for and executed, and changes of vision midstream. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, 42-0-1, 30 knockouts, Juanacatlan, Jalisco, Mexico, is a far better fighter than Floyd, younger and less experienced. If Floyd gets past Alvarez, Danny Garcia, Lucas Matthysse, Manny Pacquiao, Timothy Bradley, Jesus Soto Karass, and Paul Spadafora (48-0-1) could all be in his future. And one thing for sure, ageless ‘money’ Floyd will always have one.
Since Floyd is earning so many tens of millions of dollars, one could wonder ‘is it a fair fight?’ Given the sense of awe, one could safely presume not. Floyd has to outbox every opponent from the outside in the early rounds, put rounds in the bank like money, and shut the door. Floyd can come in on the inside and wage war on his opponents and outbox them later on in the fight. Thus far, no opponent has had an answer. Except to take that ‘money money money’. Ever hear the song ‘For the Love of Money’ by the O’Jays? It has to be the theme song for the modern day castoff opponents lining up to fight Floyd.
For The Love of Money. Full seven minute version sung by the O’Jays on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3uipTO-4A
As Floyd ages, the going is getting tougher. And the tough get going. Canelo has to get inside and outbox Floyd from the start, one notch above his performance against Austin Trout. Canelo has to drop Floyd several times and work him over. Canelo is young, tough, and will to ‘pay the price to get inside’ is his valiant attempt to get the job done.
Prediction: Floyd Mayweather Win 12 over Canelo if Floyd stays on his feet. The 23 year old Canelo Win 12 or stoppage after round 7 over the aging 36 year old Floyd if he can drop Floyd to the canvas more than once, and take control of the bout after the first few rounds. One thing’s for sure, as goes the old Jim Morrison biography title states ‘Nobody gets out of here alive’ if Floyd makes it out of here alive, no rematch will be sought ever “Don’t want one!” As Rocky Balboa notes after his first bout with Apollo Creed.
As for Danny Garcia versus Lucas Matthysse for the World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council Super Welterweight titles, bring a fire extinguisher for this preliminary to the main event bout, because we have ourselves a technical boxing war complete with insane slugfest for the right to be the next opponent to fight Floyd in early 2014. If the bout goes the distance, Garcia, 26-0, 16 knockouts, will win the 12 round decision over Matthysse. If the bout does not go the distance, Matthysse will knock out Garcia cold. Whatever the outcome, it will be cold, cruel and vicious, or as, Howard Cosell yelled it bluntly during George Foreman versus Ron Lyle bout, “Boxing the way the public wants it!” So apropos, so true. There better be a stretcher at ringside for this wild affair, because somebody is going to get the next Floyd payday, and somebody has got to go. Remember, folks, vulture don’t leave meat scraps once a pending corpse reaches the end of the line.
Other predictions: Ishe Smith Win 12 Carlos Molina, IBF Light Middleweight title, a good scrap. Pablo Cesar Cano TKO 10 or TKO 11 Ashley Theophane in a bad scrap. Ronald Gavril Win 8 Shujaa El Amin, super middleweights. Christopher Pearson TKO 7 Josh Williams middleweights.
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