The "All Things Mayweather/Pacquiao" Express!!!!!!

There are exactly three new threads between now and the opening bell the night of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao (if such a night ever comes) that will be tolerated as sovereign threads serving a legitimate purpose and therefore not merged into this one:

1. The official poll thread once the fight is actually signed. Can be created by whomever, so long as done properly (five option format, with a voting cutoff date of at least the day of the fight, and not anonymous) - whoever makes one first, that will be "official".
2. The official ****ysis/breakdown thread (again, once the fight is actually signed - and like with the poll thread, first one made after the official announcement is the "official" thread).
3. The day-of RBR thread itself.

After the fight, it will be a free-for-all. No merging. It won't be this will-they-or-won't-they drama (like Ross and Rachel getting together on Friends) anymore and the post-fight discussion will run its course like any other fight.


This behemoth will be locked, and no longer added to.



Subsequent threads about the fight itself retrospectively, anything that occurred during it (debate over knockdown rulings, point deductions, individual round scoring, etc), as well as potential rematch talk will all be left alone, since the 6-year drama of whether they ever set foot in the ring with each other will have been concluded and even though such topics may generate lots of discussion it won't be the forum pollutant it has been since its percolation in 2008/9 and peak in 2010/11. They'll just be two fighters, and their fight will have been just another fight - as will a rematch if applicable.

 

Edited the above into the 2nd post of the Express.

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?p=16683769#post16683769


Let's see if that accomplishes diddly squat - my guess, no.