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...Ringside seats cost $3,000. (By comparison, the top ticket for the recent, much-ballyhooed fight between Oscar De la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West...
...Mayweather, who has some of the quickest hands on the planet, was able to land a good shot to De La Hoya's cranium, but the Golden Boy wasn't hurt. Both fighters' faces looked raw, Mayweather with puffiness over his right eye, but no one really sustained serious damage. Going after Mayweather and trying to use brute force was a sound strategy because as recently as 2003, the slighter Mayweather was fighting as a lightweight at 135 pounds. De La Hoya pressed the action, throwing 587 punches to Mayweather's 481. "I felt I won the fight...
...Hoya vs. Mayweather won't go down as the greatest fight ever, but say this much: it had currency. What mattered for people who love boxing, who understand its history, is that for one night in May 2007 the sport recaptured the public's imagination, finding itself again in the mainstream of American culture. It was a fight for fighting, and fighting...
...leading up to the super welterweight (154-pound) clash, motor-mouthed "Pretty Boy" Mayweather - who outside the ring carries $30,000 in pocket money and decorates himself with $1 million in diamond-encrusted jewelry - embraced the role of Iago, continuously woofing at his opponent. Seeking to irritate De La Hoya and fire up the partisan crowd, Mayweather came into the arena cheekily wearing a white sombrero and the red and green colors of Mexico on his trunks; his corner men wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Mayweather Loves Mexico." Meanwhile De La Hoya, the "Golden Boy" the superstar...
...They say that if you want the story of a fight, look at the competitors' feet and they will tell the narrative. From the beginning of the bout, De La Hoya's red-colored shoes strided toward the elusive Mayweather. De La Hoya's aggressive strategy was born on the belief that he needed to engage his opponent in a brawl, to bull Mayweather, who tends to sidestep his opponents with ghost-like body movements. De La Hoya, an angular man who stands two inches taller than Mayweather, wanted to get in close and use his power and size...