Juan Manuel Marquez plays lead in Urinetown as 24/7 plot sickens

I'm charging HBO's 24/7 fight hype program with a serious TMI violation. The second episode of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Floyd Mayweather hype show just delivered too much information as to a unique training habit of the Mexican ringmaster.

Maybe you missed this soporific episode so I will give you a couple of clues.

If Juan Ma takes up acting, other than at press conferences where he bitches and whines about "losing twice" to Manny Pacquiao, he will have to be in the off-Broadway hit which moved to the main strand.

The name of that play was not "You're In Town," rather it was the more not for the squeamish "Urinetown."

Or, to put it another way, you might label the 36 year old Marquez as Golden Boy's Golden Shower Boy.

Come on folks, it's not me who is the Kinky Firedman here, it's the otherwise seemingly normal family man Marquez revealing to and demonstrasting for HBO how he likes to haver heaping helping of his own urine after a hearty workout.

I've heard of protein shakes but this is ridiculous. Now we know, I suppose, why Marquez gave Pacman such a hard time over 24 rounds and why, you will pardon the expression, why he was "pissed offA" about getting a draw the first time and losing a nip and tuck verdict the second.

Or, given his urine drinking habit, should I say a cut and snip decision?

Earlier in the program HBO had shown Marquez snorting freshly laid quail eggs in the rarefied mountain air of 14,000 foot Toluca and I had no problem with that fowl activity so to speak.

As far as the salutary effects of drinking down your own urine, what I thought was a waste product, I will have to check with the world renowned expert on such matters, Dr. IP Daley, who is based in Kidney, Pa.

More on that later if you're not revolted already.

Just to show how thin the 24/4 plot is getting with these less than fascinating main characters, JMM and Money May, you know the plot is not thickening when the script and video is reduced to first the quail egg chowdown and then the urine drinking.

My capsule review of Episode 2 (with two desultory programs to follow, is this (more on the show to follow in another article, of course, would be a mere three words:

The plot sickens.

Or, as the sign over the pool out at Don King's Orwell, Ohio, training camp reads:

PLEASE DO NOT P IN OUR OOL.

Or, as they say at Casa Marquez in Mexico City, waste not, want not.

Haven't they ever heard of Gatorade in Mexico?

Maybe Juan Ma is creature of habit and this goes back to when he was a pobrecito.

In Mexico City, the rich people have a canope over their luxurious beds.

The poor people have a can of pee under their beds.

Good taste will not permit me to discuss this matter any further.

I'm used to hearing about revenue streams for big fights and PPV TV but urine streams?

Watch it with the TMI, HBO.

This tidbit should have been on a need to know basis.

Or should I say a need to go basis?

(mlcmarley@aol.com)

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