Boxing Delivers Another Pre-Fight Gem Before Mayweather-Guerrero

This Saturday Floyd Mayweather Jr. puts his undefeated record on the line against Robert Guerrero in a welterweight bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Boxing is no where near as popular as it once was but Mayweather still draws a crowd.  I will never understand how someone can consider themselves the champion of a weight class but yet there's three other titleholders in the same class.  Which is considered the real champ, is it the WBO, IBF, WBA, or WBC?

However, one thing boxing still has that no sport does are the most entertaining pre-fight weigh-ins and press conferences.  The UFC is a better product as a whole right now but is no match in the category.  The only comparison is the WWE and who can forget these classic interviews and promos from The Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.  But with boxing, these guys can't wait to pound each other and take pre-fight activities to either get in their opponents head or try to get the fight started early.  Remember Mike Tyson's outburst before his fight with Lennox Lewis.  Or how about Larry Holmes jumping over a car to get to Trevor Burbick.  And the best trash talker of all time, Muhammed Ali said too much to Joe Frazier as they got in a tussle on Wide World of Sports.

Well this week we were given another classic pre-fight moment when Guerrero's father, Ruben Gurrero, railed into Mayweather at their press conference calling him a woman-beater and more.

The entertainment in the ring might not be as popular as days gone by, but we can always count on boxing for giving us great moments before the real fight even starts.  As for Mayweather-Guerrero, I'm going to be tuning in to hopefully see history.  Can Guerrero actually give Mayweather his first loss?  I don't think so.  Mayweather only seems to take fights where he's confident he'll stay undefeated and this should be no different.