They need to tango. They need to fandango
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.So let's get ready to rhumba.
What the heck is fandango, anyway?The public will now accept no substitutes, no Antonio Margarito for Pacman and no Sergio Martinez for Money May.
This sizzling fight, the supreme slugger against the master boxer, is like a well marbled steak with flames surrounding it.
Anecdotal Evidence #1: As I came through customs at Newark Airport, after my sojourn to the Philippines, I handed by landing card to a young, African American customs inspector. He noticed my Pacquiao tee-shirt, bought for cash money at the Gesanio Mall in Gensan.
I guessed he'd make a crack about Pac, that he would say say something about Manny's needle phobia, his reluctance to accept totally random drug testing.
I guessed wrong as is so often the case with stereotypical thinking.
Who wins the fight, this fellow asked.
I said Pacquiao and he said, "He will, if they fight...if Mayweather stops ducking him!"
Anecdotal Evidence #3: Bellying up to the bar at Hurley's Saloon, the white bartender and two white customers were talking up The Only Fight That Matters. The mixologist backed Pacman as did one customer. That guy's boozing buddy was a Flomo, a follower of Mayweather.
Like the customs guy, this trio was 30ish in age.
I checked in with in the know AOL Fan House fight scribe Lem "The Baltimore Gem" Satterfield and his reading of the public pulse is identical to mine.
"I'm personally tired of the back and forth, the blood testing and all the he said, he said," Satterfield said. "You go to the barber shops, the gorcery stores...people don't know close the deal was to getting done (in January) but they don't want to hear about Olympic style testing or anything else, they only want to know what the fight date is. Blood tests, all that other stuff, just turns people off, really."
The public appetite is stronger, the time is now, the fight date should be this fall so we really have a November To Remember.
They know that loose lips sunk this ocean liner once before.
The less we all hear from Uncle Bob, Cousin Richie Rich, Laughing Lenny...the better.
The theme song for these suits is "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show." May I remind them no is going to the MGM Grand or to Cowboys Stadium to see them or hear them pontificate and prevaricate.
The firm hand of HBO paymaster Ross Greenburg, worthy keeper of the boxing exchequer, is there to right the ship if need be.
The G Man must play the concerned but stern daddy role and he is.
My next column will detail "The Blueprint" to make this bout an almost done deal but I'll give you a teaser, a lagniappe as we say in Nawlins, to titilate you, to whet your fist appetite.
MICHAEL MARLEY'S MASTER BLUEPRINT TO PUTTING MAYWEATHER-PACQUIAO INTO SIGNABLE CONTRACT FORM:
1. The money split doesn't look as contentious or as likely a dealbreaker as you might think. Both sides know the money pool is nearly bottomless. The alpha, the omega to this deal is to call off the legal beagles, for everyone involved as either plaintiff or defendant (that means you Manny and you Coach Roach) to take your lawsuits and throw them into File 13.
How to get this mutually agreed to?
Simple, really, you make it the first discussed but last memorialized (written in legalese) point.
There should be no heavy debate on this considering that if no fight deal is made, readied for Manny and Floyd's respective John Hancocks, the lawsuits will continue at their turtle pace.
Only rocky shoals I see here is the Pacquiao side demanding an apology on the drug allegations.
How hard is that?
It's a two paragaph press release stipulated to and sent out by both sides, it's no Biggie, Smalls.
Checking your ego at the public door is not so tough when you see a $40 million purse awaiting both superstars, now is it?
When I return, the rest of the story...
READER'S REWARD: You came this far, you deserve it. Here's Wikipedia on fandango:
Fandango is a lively folk and Andalusian (flamenco) couple-dance usually in triple metre, traditionally accompanied by guitars and castanets or hand-clapping (palmas in Spanish and Portuguese). Fandango can both be sung and danced. The sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has an instrumental introduction followed by "variaciones". Sung fandango usually follows the structure of "cante" that consist of four or five octosyllabic verses (coplas) or musical phrases (tercios). Occasionally the first copla is repeated.
The metre of fandango is similar to that of the bolero and seguidilla. It was originally notated in 6/8 time, but later in 3/8 or 3/4.
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