I get why anyone would be skeptic, it's been 6 goddamn years with no fight made. But the dynamics have changed from when negotiations fell through years ago: both guys are nearing the end and know it's now or never to cash in, and one guy no longer has the negotiation power to hold out and make demands.

To me, the fight is no longer for the fans, it's for Manny, Floyd, Las Vegas, and the promotion companies. This fight needed to happen in 2009-2011, and it didn't. In 2009 you had two guys in the prime of their careers, the top two p4p greats of our generation who were head and shoulders above everyone else, and the fight never happened. That fight died when JMM landed that KO blow. You can't get that back, the window of opportunity is gone. Now it's 2015, both guys are well past it and on the way out of the sport, and they've conned the public into believing that they're going to get the fight that never happened 5 years ago. We're not getting that fight, we're getting a consolation prize. They'd be crazy not to cash in on this farce.