The Loser In Mayweather/De La Hoya Is The Fans!

Rest In Peace Boxing. The sport of boxing was born in ????? and died late Saturday night, May 6, 2007. Boxing had many children and few hero's in its long campaign of history and legacy. Boxing is survived by MMA, which is destined to step in and take the place of the corrupt, once majestic sport.

That was it! That was the mega-super-extraordinary-amazing-be-all-end-all-fight of the century? Floyd Mayweather waited and ran outside of Oscar De La Hoya doing just enough to win the bout 115 to 113 by my oh so superior score card. Oscar did a little early, and less after, to cruise to a finish to where he could say, hey, I was in the fight, though the effort can easily be doubted. Floyd didn't exactly push the pace in what ended up to be an anti-climactic fight with little action, and ZERO saving grace for boxing. After all the promotion, the 24/7 HBO reality show, the trash talk and upstaging at the press conferences, that is what they gave us. Two men unwilling to throw down and let the winner clearly emerge in glorious victory.

Instead of the ear crushing thunderous bang boxing fans had longed for, boxing went out with only a small whimper of a fight. We must now all move on to the future of combat sports, MMA, where combatants such as Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Shogun Rua, Takanori Gomi, Sakuraba, Wanderlei Silva, Matt Lindland, The Last Emperor and pound 4 pound baddest man on the planet Fedor Emelianenko, excel at the true art of war and excellence, truly giving their all on the path to glory and prominence.

Goodbye boxing, for I knew you all too well.