From One Has-Been To Another: Roy Jones Jr. And Felix Trinidad Duke It Out This Weekend

We’ve dismissed the Felix Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. fight as nothing but a glossy mosaic of broken opportunities coming together seven years too late. Roy Jones Jr. turned 39 today and Felix Trinidad turned 35 last week. Neither fighter has been a serious contender for anything worthy since 2001. So why talk about the fight? Because Don King is promoting it and he wants to make sure you know that this fight isn’t about the ridiculous amount of money these has-beens are getting paid. It’s about something more melocdramatic and endearing: pride.

Promoter Don King, beating the drums for a fight that is so far a box-office dud, most likely because of exorbitant ticket prices, takes exception to that description of the fight.
“What they’re saying is that these two guys are old,” King said at Tuesday’s final news conference. “They’re saying these two guys are not at the height of their careers. They are dreaming, because they are naysayers, doomsayers, illsayers. The fight was made because of pride.”

In boxing years, Oscar De La Hoya is old; Floyd Mayweather Jr. is old; Ricky Hatton is getting old; but these guys are ancient. If we’re sober enough, (after a full days worth of FMF action), then we may tune in. But the odds are that the most exciting fisticuffs will take place outside Madison Square Garden.
Jones-Trinidad doesn’t have the oomph it once did [ESPN]
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