Mayweather vs. Cotto: Lackluster Fight Won't Be Worth Taking Trip to Theater

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto are coming to the silver screen!

Oh, who am I kidding—who cares?

Some people will, I suppose. For those of you who do, here are the details via Dan Rafael of ESPN:

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Golden Boy Promotions announced Tuesday that it has teamed with NCM Fathom Events to distribute the Mayweather-Cotto show in theaters around the country, as it has been doing for most of Golden Boy's major pay-per-view cards in recent years.

Mayweather's challenge of junior middleweight titlist Cotto—plus Saul "Canelo" Alvarez's junior middleweight title defense against Shane Mosley and the other PPV undercard bouts at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas—will be available in nearly 440 movie theaters nationwide. And sure enough, I looked it up and found that one of the theaters near my home in Northern Virginia is charging $18 per ticket, obviously much cheaper than the pay-per-view.

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But if we're being honest, is any fight involving Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao at all intriguing if they aren't fighting each other?

Nope.

So why would I bother to drive all the way to a movie theater to catch this one? Sure, I get the price thing, but buying a soda and a bag of popcorn is going to set me back close to $20 anyway. And I might want the pretzels with the little cheese cup, and damn it, that's another $10.

Plus, for those who like to imbibe during the fight, I can't imagine that will be tolerated.

There are plenty of good places to watch a fight. A bar. A house where your friends have gathered. A back alley. A secret lair. A platform above a pit littered with metal spikes. YouTube.

But the movie theater? And this fight in particular?

Nah.

Now, if you give me Mayweather vs. Pacquiao on the big screen, sell alcohol and lower the price on the pretzels with the cheese cup, well, count me in.

Until then, I'm pretty sure I can find a party where one of my friends knows a guy, and we could totally roll over if we wanted to, and I won't have to pay for the fight.

That's plenty good enough for me.

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