UFC's White Man tells truth, MMA may knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I carry no brief for UFC bossman Dana White or his so called sport.

Yeah, I know I am old fogey who goes out for those Early Bird dinners and plays shuffleboard with blue hair ladies of a certain age.

I prefer curling, either on ice or in a hairdressing salon, to MMA. It's not a real manly sport like mmy beloved golf.

Send your hate screeds and other rips to mlcmarley@waitingtodie.com.

Let’s get past that.

The White Man, as I call the outspoken Bostonian, is 1000 percent right in saying that the Sept. 19 Juan Manuel Marquez-Floyd Mayweather Jr. PPV bout in Las Vegas is not a “big fight.”

I got nearly 18,000 emails on the hot button issue of whether Manny Pacquiao should be fighting for the WBO welterweight title on Nov. 14. One gentleman named M. Guzman, who has a Filipino social group and a website called Greatpinoy.com, informed he had 6,000 members ready to “Mannycot” the Bob Arum promoted bout if it was not for the title belt.

I don’t think Mayweather, who is an exquisite talent, has 6,000 fans on the planet.

He may he some on Uranus, I can’t be sure and I hesitate to look.

Sure, the White Man is chopping up Marquez-Mayweather for selfish reasons. He has a show the same night and is fearlessly going head to head with Pretty Boy and the Mexican count puncher.

On the same night, the UFC 103 show rolls in Dallas and if guys named Swick and Kampmann draw more live viewers and TV eyeballs than Mayweather and Marquez do, boxing will be bleeding and bleeding bad.

White has not played his TV card yet, meaning there's been no indication if he will put the American Airlines Arena show on regular cable or bang heads with boxing on PPV. If White puts his show on Spike, many people will opt for the Juan Ma-Mayweather "free replay" on HBO and keep half a hundred in their battered pockets.

New flash for L'il Floyd: although you claim UFC is only for honkies, crackers, ofays and Whitey Bulger types, the key color in the viewers choice on 9/19 will be green as in saving or spending green.

If boxing and MMA go head to head on PPV, that might be Armageddon.

I will have to check with TV genius Brian Ricco, the former Showtime brain, on this.

But whether he’s selfish or just a shellfish, it doesn’t matter.

Whitey speaks the truth here because, while I am interested to see if Midget Marquez can be competitive against the jab and dash tactics of a rusty Money Must Pay IRS, it is in no way, shape or form a big fight by any measurement.

It’s not a hot ticket, nobody’s talking about it except for some Maynuthuggers and there is no way in hell it will deliver the mayhem of Pacman against Cotto.

On this topic, the White Man is the right man.

Ask your neighborhood scalper how Marquez-Mayweather tickets are moving and he will laugh at you.

The only way the Golden Boys will have a sellout is to buy thousands of ticket themselves.

This was a stupid match and whoever came up with the idea first should be embarrassed.

It’s two great ring talents in a match that will never get hot.

I don’t necessarily see Sept. 19 as the ultimate confrontation between boxing and MMA. I just don’t buy into the idea that MMA is going to put boxing out of business any time soon.

But the White Man does not speak with forked tongue.

The selling of this match is pathetic.

Latest example is Mayweather turning up in massive UK tabloid, The Sun, today saying he left Ricky Hatton as a mere shell of himself and that’s the reason Pacman feasted on the plucky Mancunian.

Isn’t this backward, folks? Why is Mayweather chatting to the press about a guy he fought rather than his upcoming opponent

I guess the ready answer is, to use an Arum expression, that “nobody cares” about JMM-PBF in England.

I won’t say “nobody cares” in the USA but you could fit the number of people who are stimulated by this event into a thimble.

Marquez comes off a scintillating, and it was, victory over Juan Diaz. They are trying to rehabilitate Diaz with a bout next month against Paulie Malignaggi.

Come to think of it, Malignaggi and Mayweather have something in common now.

All they both talk about is a physical wreck named Hatton.

White is driving forward, both feet hammering the gas pedal.

Mayweather is occupied with his rear view mirror.

Wake up, Floyd, it may not be too late, the sport you save may be your own.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m7d29-UFCs-White-Man-tells-truth-MMA-may-knock-out-Floyd-Mayweather-Jr