By Thomas Gerbasi - This week the buzz in the boxing world centered on the September meeting between pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. And rightfully so. It’s a great fight stylistically, financially, and any other “ally” you can conjure up.
I love the fight, kudos to both men for stepping up and taking it, and I will be watching.
But it’s not the fight I want to see most this year. And no, I’m not going to dream of Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank kissing and making up and putting together great matchups to last us through the New Year, or fantasy fights like Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao coming to fruition. My dream fight for 2013 won’t shatter pay-per-view records, won’t get the New Yorker and other bastions of literary excellence returning to the sweet science, and it likely won’t even garner much of anything here in the States when it comes to mainstream media attention.
Yet if you matched up Marcos Maidana and Lucas Matthysse, nothing would make me, or any diehard fight fan, happier. For all the wonders of a sport that has produced the likes of Pernell Whitaker and Willie Pep, as well as the Argentine countryman of Maidana and Matthysse, middleweight boss Sergio Martinez, this is a fight that will take the art of fistic violence to an elite level. Think Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Pacquiao IV or Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo I, the kind of fights that leave you drained when they’re over, as if you just laced up the gloves and stepped between the ropes.
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I love the fight, kudos to both men for stepping up and taking it, and I will be watching.
But it’s not the fight I want to see most this year. And no, I’m not going to dream of Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank kissing and making up and putting together great matchups to last us through the New Year, or fantasy fights like Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao coming to fruition. My dream fight for 2013 won’t shatter pay-per-view records, won’t get the New Yorker and other bastions of literary excellence returning to the sweet science, and it likely won’t even garner much of anything here in the States when it comes to mainstream media attention.
Yet if you matched up Marcos Maidana and Lucas Matthysse, nothing would make me, or any diehard fight fan, happier. For all the wonders of a sport that has produced the likes of Pernell Whitaker and Willie Pep, as well as the Argentine countryman of Maidana and Matthysse, middleweight boss Sergio Martinez, this is a fight that will take the art of fistic violence to an elite level. Think Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Pacquiao IV or Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo I, the kind of fights that leave you drained when they’re over, as if you just laced up the gloves and stepped between the ropes.
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and matthysse gets a better value by himself for sure , but GARCIA vs MATTHYSSE Is a super memorable fight that i want to see No doubt!!!! Hope in september YEAH
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