'To a stockbroker, schoolteacher or sportswriter, 40 years, 7 months, and 3 days old is prime time. Continuance is not an issue. For a boxer, continuance is borderline suicidal.'
An argument can be made that watching an aging sports legend is more a treat than tribulation for fans. As a 2014 article in New Yorker magazine theorized, “In most sports, veterans who outlast their peers become sentimental favorites.”
So, when Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao once again enters the boxing ring at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on Saturday night, he might not be a betting favorite, but he certainly will be a sentimental one. He will also be 40 years, 7 months, 3 days old. Woods carried the banner exceptionally well. Williams and Federer acquitted themselves superbly in the grind that their sport necessitates. Pacquiao is next up., a decade younger. Besides the usual boxing trash talk and carnival-barker ticket-selling, Thurman seems to be wrestling with the prospect of taking on somebody of who will forever be on a pedestal in the Philippines.
That brings to mind the old quip, “Youth is wasted on the young.” Or as Roach, a master needler and quote-maker, says, “In this fight, youth will be served a big slice of humble pie.” He retired after his third fight with Tim Bradley in 2016, but says now he stepped away only to please his family. B oxing retirements are like tennis balls. They don’t last long. And sure enough, Pacquiao was soon back at it.
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