Saturday’s championship boxing bout in Las Vegas is touted as the fight of a century merely in its 15th year. That thusly seems premature considering the greatest boxers of the period may not yet be born, but based on what we already know about this place and time, the opulence of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s financially astronomic welterweight title clash with Manny Pacquiao makes sense for a new gilded age.
For six years, boxing fans and the general public clamored to watch the two best boxers of their generation step into a ring and fight. Here it is, signed, sealed and less than a week away, though only a select few will be able to get close enough to the buffet at the MGM Grand let alone inside the casino hotel’s buzzing arena on fight night.