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LAS VEGAS--With Big Fight Week kicking off today, I want to get this out of the way.
On behalf of fight fans worldwide, I am putting everyone involved ON NOTICE--yeah, that means you Bob Arum and you HBO PPV executives and you Al Haymon--that the ONLY fight I want to hear about if Manny Pacquiao can overcome Miguel I'm No Angel Cotto is Manny versus Floyd Mayweather.
I know the target date is either March or May of 2010.
But please, all you boxing blowhards, spare us the blather about the eminently respectable Sugar Shane Mosley or any other opponent including Juan Manuel Marquez, should Pacman get past the Boricua Banger.
MICHAEL MARLEY'S FIREPOWER FIGHT WEEK LINKS:
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Hospitable Bob: Arum welcomes Mayweather, Mosley to Media Center
As some of you keen observers and Marleymaniacs have noted (like Jon), at 145 pounds or so Pacman would flatten the Mexican Ringmaster like the proverbial pancake. Marquez would be down so often there would be skid mark on his boxing trunks. I've nothing against the trilogy concept but I don't want it immediately following the Cotto contest and I still say a contest this will be come Saturday night.
Let me put it another way, if Megamanny wins, the ONLY fight that truly matters is Ali vs. Frazier in minuature, meaning Floyd against Manny.
Now I wonder if Floyd will be out of town, conveniently enough, this week or whether he might grace us with a cameo visit to the MGM Grand at least for the fight itself if not for the prefight folderol.
Can't imagine that Floyd will be looking to fat the already bulging pockets of his ex-promoter, Uncle Bob, but maybe HBO can harness Floyd and get him to further juice up the proceedings. These two may hate each other but they both hate not making millions even more than doing business together so let's stop wasting time on that poppycock.
We're talking about putting the biggest fight of a generation together, not setting up the family picnic.
Or Mayweather could pull the old George Foreman trick of coming to ringside and then walking out in mock disgust as if fighting the winner is beneath him.
Meanwhile, Mayweather made a cameo at courtside in Sacramento to watch his Vegas pals, the Maloof Brothers' Kings team play an NBA game.
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PHOTO AT TOP, OFFICIAL PACMAN ARRIVAL MGM GRAND CHRIS FARINA FOR TOP RANK
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