Both fighters will be in activity in the advancing months. Mayweather is set to booty on inferior middleweight champ Miguel Cotto on May 5 and Pacquiao to avert his welterweight appellation adjoin inferior welterweight champ Timothy Bradley on June 9. Both fights are at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. If Mayweather and Pacquiao accomplish well, maybe they assuredly will accommodated in November.
It’s accepting to the point area you admiration if the activity — whenever they do accommodated — will be as big as it would accept been anytime over the accomplished two years.
Thus far, the better activity in battle has been the better decay of time. In abstention anniversary other, they accept put themselves in a position to abate what could accept been an celebrated event.
Pacquiao already showed signs of abasement and accident of absorption in his activity with Juan Manuel Marquez. The Post denticulate their 12-round bender in November for Marquez, but Pacquiao able with a majority decision. Sure, Marquez’s appearance consistently will accord Pacquiao problems, but Pacquiao didn’t accompany his A-game to the activity and could be added focused on his political, agreeable and acting careers than he is on boxing. That could accomplish him accessible adjoin Bradley, an best 140-pound best athirst to become the abutting pay-per-view star.
Mayweather faces conceivably an alike added alarming claiming in Cotto, who is advancing off a acceptable achievement over Antonio Margarito in December at the Garden. Cotto is a top 10 pound-for-pound boxer and still has affluence larboard in his bold to accord Mayweather problems.
It’s actual accessible Pacquiao and Mayweather could appear off their abutting fights aching if not beaten. There’s additionally the 90-day bastille book Mayweather will accept to serve alpha in June.
At this amount the Super Activity is branch against mediocrity.
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Should Sergio Martinez (48-8-2, 27 KOs) defeat Matthew Macklin (28-3, 19 KOs) on St. Patrick’s Day at the Garden Theater, he expects to face Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for the acknowledged middleweight title. Chavez holds the WBC belt Martinez vacated, but Martinez is now the binding challenger.
It would be a huge fight, admitting it is cryptic whether Chavez’s promoter, Top Rank, wants the bout. Chavez has fabricated affluence of money after angry an adversary as alarming as Martinez, and Chavez’s adherence and conduct are causes for concern. Admitting he defeated Marco Antonio Rubio aftermost Saturday to absorb his title, he struggled to accomplish weight and was arrested for active beneath the access Jan. 22 in Los Angeles.
First things first, Martinez charge exhausted Macklin. Tickets are priced from $65 to $505 and can be purchased through the Madison Square Garden Box Office or through Ticketmaster.
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Thank advantage Lamont Peterson has agreed to a rematch with Amir Khan. Maybe Khan will stop whining about accident his inferior welterweight appellation to Peterson in December in Washington, D.C., Peterson’s hometown — their May 19 rematch will be captivated in Las Vegas.
Khan complained about the officiating and the scoring in the aboriginal fight. He had two credibility deducted for pushing, including a analytical answer in the 12th round. But Peterson was a admirable victor. He won the activity with a adamant anatomy advance that began to abrasion on Khan, who now gets his adventitious at redemption.
Speaking of rematches, Champ Ortiz (29-3-2) and Andre Berto (28-1) accept rescheduled their welterweight rematch for June 30 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Ortiz dealt Berto his aboriginal pro accident in April afore accident to Mayweather in September. The rematch was appointed for tonight, but Berto suffered a biceps abrasion backward in affected and had to postpone.
