Revisiting the Mosley-Mayorga Scorecards from 2008: Early Stages of a "Shot" Sugar

The thread was made before the bout occurred:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223096

Now, for those attempting to play the "agenda" game, I do have an agenda:

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I particularly dislike fighters who strike a "hard" pose but fail to back it up by avoiding fights or fighters who may challenge them.

Mayweather and Haye are too egregious examples of this kind of fighter, and so they draw my ire.

Haye has stepped out twice on Klitschko fights after yelling to anyone who would listen that he was chomping at the bit to fight either or both brothers.

That makes him a joke in my book. And as Lolenga Mock and others have demonstrated, he is a glass-chinned joke to boot.

That's the way it is, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise regardless of any fanboys who try to hype their way around reality.

Ditto for Mayweather. He fights a shot 38-year-old sans his PED's in a brutal-to-watch bout and people are trying to pretend it's some landmark of the sport.

It's not, and I can't pretend it is.

So, I write a post to help put things into perspective for the Hype Train Posse.

I am more than willing to give credit where it is due, no matter who I wanted or picked to win a fight. When Pascal beat Diaconu, I wrote a post praising him to the roof. He deserved it. He fought a guy Dawson would not and he showed true heart and grit in the match. That deserves praise.

In contrast, cherry picking a guy coming off of two-out-of-three poor performances and who is 38 years old does not.

The "agenda" is truth. The goal is to get behind the hype.

Last night's fight sucked. It was a mismatch that did little to elevate Floyd's legacy, as at least one reporter in the media has written up. This is the price Floyd pays for picking another past-it opponent.

His decision, not mine. Don't try to shoot the messenger.