Yesterday (May 2nd) was the five-year anniversary of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao mega-fight. This was not a great fight and it obviously didn’t live up to the hype.
Instead we’re going to talk about something else that happened on May 2nd, but in 2009. And unlike the Mayweather fight, this was a shining moment for Pacquiao.
In front of a packed house at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the Filipino icon took on England’s Ricky Hatton for the lineal junior welterweight title. No actual major belts were at stake, but we’re combat sports fans and we get off on the word “lineal.