Mayweather vs Cotto

Bob Arum and Floyd Mayweather may have their differences, but that doesn’t mean the Top Rank boss is picking against his former fighter.

Mayweather will face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on Sept. 14 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, a matchup of two unbeaten boxers.

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Every great craftsman, whether in the art studio or in the boxing ring, wants recognition for his work and acknowledgement of the effort it took to work his way to the top. For various reasons-some involving his own exaggerated self-promotion-Floyd Mayweather will always be in the boxing purgatory reserved for great fighters who somehow ran afoul of the narrative-setting media.
Even when forced into praising the five-division world champ, every bit of media faint praise is buried in a mound of “yeah, buts,” “if onlys,” and “but he never wills.”

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Joe Cortez was the third man in the ring with some of the best boxers in history, and he holds the unofficial record for world championship fights as a referee. Yet he’s still capable of being thrilled by the announcement of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Canelo Alvarez fight.

“I want to see the fight in person, to chat with fans and talk about this matchup that will be very special,” said Cortez, who entered the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011 and retired last year. “This will be one of the biggest fights in boxing in the last 10 years.”

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After all the hullabaloo about David Beckham earning more than the gross national product of many third world countries, it turns out that he is not even the best paid sportsman on the planet.
Nor the second.

Those top two places belong – to the chagrin of those who condemn their sport as a throw-back to the dark ages – to boxers.

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In the fast-paced world of modern news reporting, it has to be accepted that there will be a much greater margin of error. In an era where journalists are plugged into social media, the temptation exists to post every thought on to a Twitter or Facebook timeline for public consumption. A minor buzz or rhetorical question immediately passes from hand to hand, becoming an actual news event-regardless of the level of accuracy behind it.

This may have been the case with the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero pay-per-view card May 4 and the subsequent reports of disappointing preliminary sales figures.

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