Thread: Al Bernstein On Boxing: This Could Get Exciting

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a little like the National Basketball Association. That seems a strange analogy, but it’s really not.

In recent years the off-season of the NBA has been really entertaining. There are blockbuster trades, player feuds, always more than our share of police blotter stories involving players, and at least a half a dozen paternity suits to spice things up.

Then the season begins and all that sizzle becomes a staid 82 game schedule with a style of play that must give all the players of the 70’s and 80’s heartburn.

Fast break opportunities are ignored to instead see guards walk the ball up the court, dump it into the low post and while everyone stands around that low post player goes one on one with not always sensational low post moves.

The product on the court somehow does not live up to our expectations.

And, that describes Mayweather Jr. to a tee. Outside the ring everything about him leading up to a fight is entertaining. His fam... Full Boxing Article here...

That is a great video commentary re: the state of boxing. Should be sending that to all branches of sports news.