Mayweather vs Cotto Fight: Wide Gap Remains Between Boxing Elite and Contenders

In boxing, there is Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and everyone else.

And Money May's latest fight against Miguel Cotto was further proof of that very notion.

It wasn't that Cotto wasn't a worthwhile opponent. Quite the opposite—he gave Mayweather one of his bigger tests in recent memory, bloodying his nose and keeping the fight interesting.

But even in doing so, it was always clear that Mayweather was the better boxer, that Mayweather's skills simply outclassed those of Cotto.

And the same thing will be evident when Manny Pacquiao faces Timothy Bradley on June 9th. Bradley will likely put up a decent fight and won't embarrass himself, but at the end of the day won't be any match for the superior Pac-Man.

That's what we have in boxing today—an elite class of fighters that either won't fight one another (Mayweather and Pacquiao) or are stuck in a division without any true contenders.

Such is the case for the heavyweights, where the Klitschko brothers rule supreme (and promised their mother they would never fight). Boxing's elite division has thus been reduced to a boring, clinical reign from fighters far bigger in Europe than they are in the United States.

Boxing needs a spark. It needs a fight between superstars, or a young fighter to emerge who can challenge the non-threatened elite class.

If this were politics, we'd either need a war between dominant factions or an uprising. Until we see that, the status quo disparity between the sport's haves and have-nots—talent-wise as well as paycheck-wise—will remain.

And frankly, that disparity has just become a bit boring.

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