By: Sean Crose

As it can be hard, this week this week the fight Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fell ten years ago. A huge fight, which still has a record of remuneration at the sight of ten years later, actually created the National News – which, like today, were great news. In general, it was a fight that the public opinion wanted to see – nothing tiny. How great was this fight? It is vast enough that an annoying classmate who loved to tell me that the boxing was dead, took pictures of weighing. This thing was huge again.

Unfortunately, the fight itself was not exactly Hagler-Hearns. Considering this, a better fight was to be remembered as. After all, it was Floyd Mayweather’s match, and Mayweather was an absolute defensive champion. While Pacquiao certainly had his moments, he could not consistently break the praised manweather style enough to win. Looking back at the fight with all a decade later, it is clear that the true story of Mayweather-Pacquiao was a fight before the struggle than the fight itself. For people, they wanted two superstar to introduce it for at least half a decade before the actual signing of the contract.

It was straightforward, then too indicating boxing, in which the business really broke, providing fans and sports what he wanted and needed. I remember that it was a delayed Friday afternoon when the contract was signed. I was on the second floor of a obscure, empty building in the campus, taking part in a media conference connection now, when the fight was finally signed and officially signed on the second day of May. I asked if it could be a rematch in the future. “Ask this question to the third of May,” he answered by phone on the phone to the sounds of laughter. It was a humorous answer. So much work passed through the whole policy and bureaucracy that at the moment all the involved wanted to breathe a sigh of relief.

And so, on May 2 this year, what seemed hundreds of us seemed to gathered at my dad’s house to watch the fight that was most disappointed. Still, nostalgic I look back. My dad has passed since that night and the family home was sold. Half of those gathered at home that evening may have difficulty reminding him today, but they recall me nice memories. Looking back, I am glad that I was a tiny part of such a very malicious noise. When everything is said and done, it was worth remembering.

Modern York – Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez Jr. They are closed and ready for appropriate fights after he gained weight on Thursday, before the triple boxing on Friday evening at the Times Square.

Garcia (24-1, 1 without a competition) weighed 146.8 pounds for his combination in the welterweight with Rolando “Rolly” Romero (16-2), which also brought a weight of 146.6 pounds. The contracted combat weight is 147 pounds.

Garcia returns to the ring for the first time from last year’s victory towards Devin Haney, who was later overthrown and ruled that Garcia did not test the positive testing of the drug ostarin. Garcia was also in the 3.2 pounds in relation to the shrinking weight of 140 pounds for this fight and was forced to lose a fraction of his Haney handbag. Garcia was then suspended for a year by Modern York State Athletic Commission. He was recently restored just before the clash with Romero.

Haney (31-0, 1 without a competition) also brought importance to fight Jose Ramirez. Haney weighed 143 pounds, while Ramirez tilted the scales with an area of ​​143.8 pounds. The contracted weight of the fight is 144 pounds. Haney has not competed since three o’clock against Garcia at a meeting last year. If Haney and Garcia won on Friday, they are expected to be in a very anticipated rematch this year.

Lopez (21-1) weighed 139.6 pounds for defending the title WBO Junior Internheight against the short-lived owner of the title Arnold Barboza Jr. (32-0), which weighed a limit of 140 pounds at 139.8 pounds.

The Friday Tripleheader will take over Times Square, where a ring will be built in the popular tourist attraction in Modern York. The event will be sent stream via DAZN PPV.

Did Ryan Garcia regain a sense of rationality?

Or maybe Jose Ramirez, his hunger?

Can Devin Haney do a blow?

And which version of Teofimo Lopez appears?

A really engaging Times Square card should give preliminary answers. But for me, the matter of the greatest consequence is about the guy that no one talks about: Arnold Barboz Jr.

Unlike his opponent, Lopez – who, when he is right, remains as electric talent as in all boxing – Barboza does not have much noise. He is not a social media star, he never even had a public crash. Actually, there is something like novel: only a warrior, although quite good-33 years and 32-0 years aged, absurdly slow for a shot in the title of world champion. The rules have changed since Barboz’s debut in 2013. Apparently, being a really good warrior is not good enough.

Despite this, the question that goes forward – especially in the case of the directors of this emerging TKO boxing league, head of UFC Dana White, President WWE Nick Khan (full disclosure: my former agent) and a guy with bankroll, Saudi financier Turki Alalshikhh – can this: can this change? Being a warrior is a lot of complex concert – you will finally risk your life – without having to be some provocate online. Is there a construction that simply allows good warriors to be good fighters, and from half of them, how inevitably happens, it appears occasionally?

In other words, can you make boxing again a sport?

“When I debuted,” says Barboza from El Monte, California, “” Social media were not even something. It wasn’t until 2020 that it began to change. ” In fact, Barboza was in a state of shot from the world champion in 2019, when the top-class promoter Bob Arum mentioned him as a probable opponent of the then Created Master-WBC Jose Ramirez. According to Ramirez, however, he went to Texas, added the title of Maurice Hooker to his collection, and Barboza went to the WBO route (preferred sanctioning body of the highest rank) in the pursuit of the belt.

Indeed, Barboza won some good fights for this purpose, recently annoying the English Southpaw Jack Cattell in Manchester, England. He is now a “momentary” champion, one of several allegedly prestigious WBO distinctions, which he won along the way, including the titles of “international” organizations and “international”. These secondary belts may seem to be nice trinkets – they certainly provide protection of the fighter from the sketch when he makes his ring – but even so interested in the observer like Arnold Barboza Sr., coach of his son and former manager, does not distinguish them. “For me they are all the same,” he says, referring to the usual sanctioning fee. “Three percent [sanctioning fee] bags. “

Sanctioning bodies – let’s explain that all of them – relate to payment for the game. Do you want to be a claimant? Ante up. Meanwhile, Barboza-the best guy for most of this decade and player No. 1 in WBO at 140 pounds from June 2023, he jumped through all rims that was required-if he passed a pretty good warrior from Chicago named Kenny Sims Jr., who was January 2022, per my sources, Barboza was in the ranking 3 by WBO in Chicago. Sims, like Barboza, was considered a warrior, though known at the time of the nervousness of Elvis Rodriguez. The problem was that Sims was not classified by WBO.

“I needed a guy from the best the best, which I still asked,” says Barboza. “What was that good for me?”

This is the dilemma of a warrior. Are you listening, TKO? Why should the ranking channelists divide 3% of their bags should risk all these years and all this money to fight guys who cannot bring them closer to the title?

This does not mean that Barboza is a duck. In addition to Cattell, his wins cover the former Master Ramirez, whom he defeated by a unanimous decision in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Tough and experienced Jose Pedraza; Then and equally complex Danielito Zorrilla; And especially difficult Hitter, also undefeated, and then at the threshold of the title, Alex Saucedo.

“It was my most complex fight,” admits Barboza. Underdog, Barboza, fell in round 7, but he still won a unanimous decision in a brutal fight. He says something about Barboz (and explains why guys are less than enthusiastically fighting him) that he often does not separate their opponents from their consciousness (only 11 KO), but he tests their body and soul.

Certainly, Saucedo, a terrifying blow, will never forget. Bleeding from the brain that suffered that night caused him to retire. “

So I call Saucedo, wondering if he has interest in the fans: Barboza, a warrior who defeated him, or Lopez, who could afford revenge.

“I don’t know,” he says. “I lost my interest in boxing a bit. I don’t see the same anymore.”

Bad blood with barboza? I’m wondering.

“Not at all,” he says. “I am very grateful that I left this business.”

Saucedo has two ecstatic children, 11 and 6, good construction work and a burden on the university course, which one day will allow him to become a project manager at workplaces. “Tell you the truth that I feel so bad that many of these guys are fighting now.” There is no stars, but fighters like him, Barboza or Sims. “Most of them just have to beg and beg, begging and begging.”

And publishing. “It’s about charisma, selling yourself,” he says with joy. “It’s social media,”. “

Admittedly, Saucedo did not have talent. On the other hand, he wasn’t alone.

“A bit amusing,” he says. “I remember they said the same about Crawford.”