...And now, talk of a rematch. On Sunday morning, Sugar Ray Leonard and Bert Sugar were on one news show saying, unanimously (and definitively) - and I agreed - that a rematch between Delahoya and Mayweather is neither justified or, in Delahoya's case, wise; the latter taken from the perspective that his legacy is slowly but surely being tarnished.
The unflinching, hard fact is that Delahoya is an enormously charismatic, undeniably smart, and highly skilled fighter, but has an increasingly chequered ring history: he was clearly bested twice versus Mosley and now Mayweather; was stopped by Hopkins; allowed himself to be narrowly edged by Trinidad; and looked awful vs. an aging Quartey, an underestimated Sturm, and I'll be damned if he wasn't caught cold and hurt in the first round against Fernando Vargas.
I guess the money is too big to ignore, and I won't blame them if they do it again. I doubt I'd pay to see the rematch, though -
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