Jon Blaze

Being Oscar De La Hoya and fighting in Las Vegas is enough to win you one one judge, but not a fight.

In one of the most highly anticipated boxing matches in year's Floyd Maywhether Jr. dropped off the aging Golden Boy in a split decision.

I was going to order the fight, but luckily a sports bar down the street was showing it for a $20 cover. Being a fan of boxing I appreciated the bout. Floyd's work was indeed a "masterpiece." He craftily allowed Oscar to back him into the ropes and then vanished as if his last name should have been Houdini Jr. But not until the Golden Boy threw punch after punch only hitting air, nonetheless getting the crowd hype.

Despite a few barrage of flurries by De La Hoya, Floyd dominated this fight by ....boxing. Not fighting but boxing - the sweet science.

However, what's hurting boxing is the lack of participants that are able to fight. In today's society the true art of boxing is getting slept on like those little blue mats in daycare. Fans don't want to see tactical fights. They want to see knockdown drag out slugfests like the heavyweights of old. Yet, seeing the results of what has happened to many of those fighters why would you expect someone to come in and want to get their brains pounded out. This isn't a Rocky movie, where you can be on the verge of severe brain damage and come back to fight this is reality.

That's why people love this UFC' ish. My knowledge of the UFC is limited, I'll say that up front, but you don't have to know a lot about it to see two people just basically beating the living shit out of each other. And as John Mellancamp tells us every other T.V. minute...... This is our country. We love raw, gritty, straight to the punch violence.

Boxing used to be that but now it's not. Sure I know that the there is also a lack of talented boxers, but after last night's fight with two of the best boxers of this generation, there were still a lot of individuals complaining that their wasn't enough action.

....Ghost

By the way Maywhether coming to the ring in the colors of the Mexican Flag and a sombrero ....GANGSTA