The Superfight That May Never Be.

So I have been tivo-ing and watching ESPN's 30 for 30 films and I must say, they are fantastic. My most recent installment was the Muhammad and Larry documentary which told the story of the the 1980 bout between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes. Watching this short film made me realize that superfights pitting two evenly matched boxers against one another at the height of their short careers, are few and far between. The Holmes-Ali fight was not one of these, it was a travesty wherein fans witnessed a once great man who had lost a significant amount of brain capacity get pummeled by a power punching heavyweight in the prime of his career. Sadly, unwatchable fights such as this are often the case in boxing. Even if it isn't an on over-the-hill fighter getting punished in the ring, it is often a superstar fighter outclassing an up and coming average boxer for yet another easy paycheck.

All this made me even more frustrated with the fact that Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiau have not come to an agreement in order to set up one of those elusive superfights we all crave. Instead we get to look forward to Mayweather-Mosley and Pacquiau-Clottey. Two nice fights for those that know boxing, but neither has a shot at conjuring up images of Ali-Frazier or Hagler-Hearns. Mayweather-Pacquiau has that shot and if either waits too long and catches a loss before they can meet in the ring much of the luster that could make that fight great is lost.

Get it done! Get this fight going so that a sport in danger of losing even more headlines to MMA brawlers can regain some of what made it great. I cannot understand what could honestly be coming between these two that would prevent them from raking by far the biggest paydays of their careers. Forget all the headlines and the possiblity of going down in history, the money alone should brush any obstacles clear out of the way and there should have been a date set for this fight months ago. It will be one of the biggest fights in the past decade and the longer both camps wait to get it agreed upon the more chance of it losing it's luster there is. Let's just hope Money May and PacMan can come to their senses and see this fight for the once in a lifetime opportunity that it is.

Blog Something

So my wife thinks you can just "blog something" like this is some made up facade of babbling gibberish posted on the web at will. Now here I am proving her wrong. If you think this blog is going somewhere you are in for a surprise. It is not. I will see how much space I can fill with nonsense as she sits over my shoulder and chuckles at the seemingly witty remarks I am making. They aren't that funny and whoever is reading this is probably going to be pretty disappointed that they wasted whatever amount of time it took to read this. I am not sorry though. I told you nothing would materialize in the sentences to come and I was not lying. As I write your life is wasting away. You could have started your taxes, gone to the gym, started reading a book, set your tivo up... the list goes on and on, but no you continued chasing the rabbit down this dark hole and now here we are, at an impasse. You have now invested some time into reading this and for some strange reason want to finish it. I am not sure why but at the same time understand it. I am not really sure where I am going to go next with it but am still enjoying the ride it is taking me on....pause...actually as I say that it seems I am running out of babble. I turn to Ashley for help and she gives me some garbage not worth posting. If she ever gets a blog do not read it! From what she just told me I can tell you it will be horrible. One time she woke up in the morning and said she needed to brush her "chompers." Who says that!? Even weirder is that she laughs at it more than I do. I have never met anyone who finds themselves more hilarious than she does. Another good part about that story is that it was nearly six hours later when it hit her that she said chompers that morning and she started laughing like an idiot. I did not know why but soon found out and gave it a small chuckle. Well that's it for the weirdest blog ever. I guess I showed her that you can't just "blog something" didn't I?