Opinion | Right Field: Too much talking - get on with it
The lustre of a highly anticipated 'fight of the century' between ageing boxing duo Mayweather and Pacquiao is fading fast
This is just what we need. There is so much strife and civil unrest in the world right now, the yearning for another big fight reeks of overkill. But nonetheless we are being told, once again, that humanity will be incomplete unless Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather somehow find a way to overcome their differences and stage the greatest, and most lucrative, fight of all time.
Last weekend in Macau, Pacquiao systematically beat down an inferior opponent in Chris Algieri. A few days later he was fêted in the streets of Manila with a "Chris Algieri Victory Parade." And I know they like a celebration and a party in Manila, but a Chris Algieri victory parade? That tells you everything you need to know about the current state of boxing and helps to explain the endlessly nauseating calls for Pacquiao-Mayweather.
It's certainly not logic that will bring them together.
These two have been carrying boxing for so long and doing it mostly on fumes
Manny has fought three times in the past two years while Floyd has fought four times over that period against the likes of Marcos Maidana, Saul Alvarez and Roberto Guerrero. But neither has had anything remotely close to a career defining victory recently and understandably so.
Mayweather will turn 38 in February and Pacquiao will celebrate his 36th birthday in two weeks. The earliest a bout of this magnitude can be thrown together would be six months from now, but don't count on that.
Mayweather won a bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics - which was almost 20 years ago - and could be 40 by the time they square up.
Is this really what the world is clamouring for?
Well if you have a vested financial stake in boxing then yes, of course.