Sunday, May 2, 2010

Intro (Mayweather vs Mosley)

Welcome to my brand new blog. I am new to the blogging community, so hopefully anyone who reads this will have more patience than I do. My intention (in other words what will absolutely not happen) is to provide you with a very small level of insight into the wide world of sports entertainment as I know it. I expect that this will primarily include, but is not limited to: boxing, NFL, SEC and other major college football programs, and the PGA. I am sure I will offer up info on the other big events that we all know and follow ie. the Olympics, World Cup, March Madness. Hopefully, I will be able to provide some perspectives and predictions that at the very least you will find intriguing. I also hope to integrate some humor into the blog. Of course, this is all going to be based on my personal bias (hence the title), so feel free to come by and gloat whenever my predictions crumble to the ground (kind of like the auto industry in recent years).

I know what you're thinking, great another guy who watches Sports Center every other morning thinks he knows enough about sports to start a blog. Well this is my anniversary weekend and we went out the night before so I would not miss out on the Mayweather vs Mosley fight last night (how many of you guys can get away with that). My wife can name all 32 NFL teams. Not impressed? Well you should be, because that is not easy. I am willing to bet 75% of American males cannot name all of the teams in the NFL, and my wife does it for fun.
Mayweather vs Mosley Thoughts
This fight went pretty much just how everyone with any boxing knowledge expected. I had Mayweather winning 119-109, only losing the second round. Mayweather as we all knew had youth, athleticism, experience, and ring generalship on his side. He landed the right hand at will throughout the night. The only reason this fight went the distance is because Floyd showed a great amount of respect to Shane and never showed any desire to go for the KO. He seemed completely satisfied with the unanimous decision that he knew was coming.

The only suprise of the night was that Floyd decided to stand and trade with Mosley in the early rounds, and after getting hit perhaps as hard as he has ever been hit in the second round, and nearly hitting the canvas Floyd decided to get back to boxing a typical Mayweather fight with minimal risks, to shut out Shane Mosley who looked like a shell of his former self. By the 8th round I was hoping Chris Brown (who "sang" the national anthem) was going to lace up the gloves and get in the ring with Money Mayweather. I hear that Brown has a vicious right cross....