Mayweather Vs. Mosley Undercard Atrocious

The Mayweather vs. Mosley welterweight battle is drawing near, and like most boxing fans I'm eagerly looking forward to the engagement. It's going to be on PPV and set me back $54.95, but I don't even mind. I would do that for this fight basically on default, and I'd buy it regardless of any extenuating circumstances, such as the fact that the undercard for the evening is absolutely atrocious. Unfortunately, that's exactly what boxing promoters capitalize on, and it's a growing trend that is damaging the sport.

As reported by Dan Rafael on ESPN, and a variety of other outlets, the Mayweather vs. Mosley undercard is completely terrible. If it was a joke, I wouldn't laugh... because it's so bad as to not be funny. As a boxing fan, I take it as an insult about what promoters think of me, my support and my money. As a backer of any cause célèbre for the sport of boxing, I find it embarrassing that this is what we're left to provide to the public at large.

The undercard for Mayweather vs. Mosley features Saul Alvarez vs. Jose "The Other" Miguel Cotto, Daniel Ponce De Leon vs. Cornelius Lock and Hector David Saldivia vs. Said Ouali. Or in the words of everybody who just read that sentence, a whole lot of, "aawhaat?" This follows a string of terrible PPV undercards, including most recently the early bouts for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey bout.

While Don King has been largely MIA with his current stable of fighters for the past decade, putting many a promising career on the backburner while feeding us the same, tired retreads over and over again, there was a time when he really put on a show. Stacked undercards with huge names in the sport sharing the bill, all in meaningful, competitive and worthwhile bouts. Unfortunately that's nothing but a distant memory now.

Usually when there is a terrible boxing pay-per-view that is being forced down our throats, I say boycott the thing and keep your money. Maybe that way we can finally force the promoters to take notice and start providing more value with the fights they line up.

But for a fight as prominent as Mayweather vs. Mosley, it will be few and far between the fans who skip this one, myself included. The promoters and the networks know it, and so they take advantage of us and continue to flush their long term fan base, support and viability down the drain.