Mayweather, Pacquiao and the Future of Boxing

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As we amble along through the excesses and excrescences of yet another big Vegas fight week, the importance of Mayweather/Marquez begins to press upon us with the weight of a sharp ache in our sides, one that is almost small enough to be ignored, almost but not quite.

To agree with Dana White for a moment (not something I'm inclined to do very often), Mayweather vs. Marquez is not a fight that we ever asked for as boxing fans, not at all. I'd rather see Floyd fight Andre Berto. I'd rather see him fight Mosley. Hell, I think I'd rather see a De La Hoya rematch than to be subjected to this semi-farce between two admittedly great fighters of drastically different proportions.

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