The growing myth about floyd-maidana I

your half-a88ed definition of magical realism tells me that either you're lying or stupid. If you looked up the phrase you would find it has a "hispanic exclusivity" meaning that latinos are the ones who created it...it's part of latino culture. it's biggest proponents are latino novelists such as gabriel garcia marquez (read 100 years of solitude...it's filled with magical realism and reveals a lot about latin american mentality and attitudes.)

many americans reject latino culture because your ways are strange and ridiculous to us, and this is just one example.

basically magical realism is fabricating an alternate reality to the one that you see with your own eyes. it's not like wanting something so bad you can "taste" it. it's basically a form of denial but more extreme because it requires that you construct an alternate reality, no matter how implausible, to replace the one that you see occurring in front of you.

 

so, would you have called the fight a draw or a close win for caneo?

 

maybe it was so close that you could call it a draw....and if you could call it a draw, maybe you could make an argument canelo won...whaddya think?:think

 

the mayweather-maidana myth is different from the mayweather-castillo I myth. The castillo myth has diminished in time as more and more fans actually see the fight on youtube and realize that while it was a close fight, mayweather actually beat castillo with ONE hand. that myth is still out there, but it's dying out over the years as more fight fans coming up, watch the tape expecting to see castillo being robbed of a clear win.

with that expectation in mind, they end up being disappointed at mayweather's close but heroic one-handed win over castillo...

As time goes by, young fans coming up in boxing will hear about how maidana was robbed of a win against floyd...and they will watch youtube expecting to see an actual robbery, but instead they will see a display of defensive virtuosity by floyd against a much younger, much bigger and heavier opponent using all kinds of foul tactics and still floyd is able to dominate...they won't know that floyd looked "uncomfortable" because they're not familiar with floyd's style...they'll just see the action in the ring. so, in reality, the myth will have destroyed itself aided by the evidence which can be found on youtube.

if people really wanted to preserve the myth, they would remove all of the maidana-mayweather I videos from youtube, so there would be no available evidence of the lie behind the myth.

 

I had it 10-2 mayweather...and i'm a big canelo fan. I was rooting for canelo to win.

but that's me...you think it could possibly be a draw or a close win for canelo? and if, let's say it's a close win, maybe the margin is really about 7-5 for canelo..and if so, maybe an argument can even be made for 8-4 for canelo. see what I mean?