You can't say that the beyond dreadful Roy Jones
-Bernard Hopkins rematch, a terrible idea since its inception, was not holiday appropriate.Their fight at Mandalay Bay, and I use the term fight rather loosely, got right into the Easter theme on Holy Saturday.
Jones, 41, and the 45 year old BHop combined to lay an egg, a Golden (Boy) egg in Las Vegas.
Every man, woman and child who checked into the host hotel-casino was given free tickets for this bum offering which is, I guess, how they were able to announce having just over 6,000 in attendance.
The crowd, another term I use loosely, spent most of the night jeering and booing. Credit ref Tony Weeks for staying awake for the full, tedious 36 minutes.
The first five rounds were sleep inducing and the balance of the bout was spotty and lethargic. Hopkins threw himself to the canvas three times, claiming rabbit punches and low blows. Weeks did take one point away from Jones in the sixth round for a punch behind Bernie's old, gray head.
Who won, oh yeah Hopkins by a 117-110 twice and 118-109 scores. As if that mattered...
"It was horrible," veteran boxing agent-matchmaker Johnny Bos said. "It made Joshua Clottey-Manny Pacquiao looks like King Kong versus Godzilla.
"Hopkins kept throwing himself to the floor and Jones can't let his hands go anymore. It was one of the worst fights ever and the undercard was even worse than the main event which doesn't really seem possible."
Much as I hate to accuse another boxing writer of good taste, I commend Las Vegan Kevin Iole, the Yahoo scribe, who publicly announced that he would skip covering this one from ringside.
I guess the end result proves Iole's good taste.
As for me, I quit while I was ahead. I thoroughly enjoyed David Hayemaker Haye's "coronation" from the United Kingdom as he starched another oldie, 38 year old John Ruiz, in nine rounds.
And then I went to bed, sleeping completely through the snoozefest in Vegas.
Good career choice, I must say.
How bad was it, you ask?
While Hopkins, on his way to either the hospital or a retirement home, called for a bout against Hayemaker, Richie Rich Schaefer had other ideas.
Hit by a lightning bolt of honesty, the Golden CEO said it was time for Hopkins to retire.
But, Sir Richard, we knew that BEFORE this bomb, didn't we?
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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