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To: CommerceComet

Disgree - Mayweather who never gets hit got hit more in those few rounds than his last 10 bouts combined - he...was...going...to...lose. Anyway, you seem a good fight fan - there aren’t many of us left - and now even fewer after last Saturday night. Loving baseball, boxing and horse racing I’ve obviously become far too old for this day and age.


25 posted on 06/13/2012 2:26:25 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: major-pelham
he...was...going...to...lose.

A wonderful thought but not the way I see it. If Mayweather hangs around, he will lose. If Pacquiao's shocking loss wakes him up, that might be it, provided they ever get into the ring. If Canelo Alvarez can put off the fight for a couple of years and avoid growing out of the weight class, he's the one that I'd put my money on to get the job done.

Anyway, you seem a good fight fan - there aren’t many of us left - and now even fewer after last Saturday night. Loving baseball, boxing and horse racing I’ve obviously become far too old for this day and age.

I've been a boxing fan, off and on, since the Ali-Frazier fight. A great time to get attracted to boxing - some great fighters in that era for those who suddenly realized that there were other weight classes as well. Great champions: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman (heavyweight), Bob Foster (light-heavy), Carlos Monzon (middleweight), Jose Napolez (welterweight), Eder Jofre (featherweight), Reuben Olivares (bantamweight) and the emergence of possibly the most exciting of them all, Roberto Duran (lightweight). Four or five of those guys are possibly the best their weight classes have ever seen.

I've been a baseball fan since the days of Mickey Mantle (hence my screen name). Back in the days before PEDs took over.

Horse racing had a tremendous run in the 1970s with Secretariat, Affirmed, Alydar, Seattle Slew, Spectacular Bid.

We are getting a little long in the tooth.

26 posted on 06/13/2012 3:29:46 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Obama vs. Romney - clear evidence that our nation has been judged by God and found wanting.)
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