Been meaning to bring this up. There were alot of little things about this show that I wanted to get some comments on as I found them to be telling of Floyd's new deal with Showtime. Floyd is holding every card for this entire promotion and it looks like thats going to be the new norm while he is at Shwotime, here are the things I picked up:
  • Common is the narrator. He did a great job and while I cant even think of who else they would have for it, I think its telling of the control Floyd has on the show that they went with someone completely new to narrarating. On top of that the actual commentary seems to have been scripted heavily to glorify Floyd.
  • Robert Guerrero was sent on a mission to promote that fight. The fight was going to sell itself regardless so why he needed to do a 7 city tour is weird. Floyds comments about Robert having to promote and "earn his stripes" gave me the feeling that promoting the fight was part of his contract to get the fight, this obviously keeps him out of the gym while Floyd was shown working out from dusk till dawn.
  • Floyd Mayweather was listed as executive producer - Again this entire series of All Access shows will all be heavily favored to give Floyd the platform to push whatever he wants to push in terms of promoting the fight.
Does any of this mean anything?? No I dont really think so, Guerrero will have plenty of time to train for the fight however that gun charge is something that has to be on his mind everynight. Thats gotta be hard to look past when you're trying to focus on the biggest fight of your career.

Thoughts?