That is some really unbalanced stuff from the Huffington Post. I’m really surprised that the meainstream media reaction has been so strongly against Mayweather. All those years of “acting” like an asshole may be catching up with him here.

Khan – Bradley would be amazing, and the winner would earn some serious respect, and proabably a consensus top 20 p4p spot. It’s about time The Ring kicked Pacquiao off their 140 pound rankings, so that we can hopefully crown a new champion this year.

I can only think that there is some serious behind the scenes stuff at the root of the Malignaggi – DiBella split. Perhaps they have had a personal falling out, or Golden Boy has, for some reason, offered Paulie a great contract.

A new Fight Night game sounds good. I am confident that they can eventually get the format just right. Aspects of 3 and 4 combined, with a new engine, and a greater depth of fighters, would make for a really good game. The potential is gigantic, but the series hasn’t really lived up to it yet, in my opinion.

I believe it is hear hear, not here here. However, I may be wrong about this.

It’s axiomatic in political campaign circles that the candidate who hits first in a battle of negative ads is the one who wins.

I don’t know if I agree completely with the logic of the Arum critique, but I agree with the result. Who wouldn’t? Arum is clearly in the wrong here. I thought the Clottey choice was OK because Clottey actually was the best available non-Mayweather opponent at the time. But that just isn’t the case now, not by a long shot.

Malignaggi’s buyout is five figures, by the way.

Bradley’s a great fighter, but lacks KO power to put people out and down. Perfect for someone like Khan. The thought of those two throwing shots would be fireworks.

About fight night, the best boxing game for my money is still Knockout Kings for N64. Easy button masher that made for some great slugfests and had defense too. never really got into the whole fight night control scheme.

I hope that the new fight night has a more international roster. obviously i want Hozumi Hasegawa, but some more crusierweights would be cool. Also the need all the weight classes to have at least 4 fighters in them….and Paul Williams!! Oh and most important NO TEDDY ATLAS

The parts of the game that bothered me were really the little things.

Round 3:
The training to up the stats were minigames that had some challenge although once you mastered the system they were pretty easy.
There was also a push when you got a few title defenses to move up in weight and conquer another division, which would make your stats take a little bit of a dive. Why? I mean you didn’t have to but to be considered great you had to change weight classes.
Beating up on guys was formulaic. I forgot exactly which special it was but you could always get it off for a counter and it would deal a good deal of damage. So the game became get the other guy to miss and slam the special counter. You pretty much couldn’t lose a bout with this formula.

Round 4:
The minigames are now impossible. Also why are there minigames? Can’t I just work on these things in the ring or something? I guess they are trying to work in the ethos of boxing training into the game but its just not going to work. Making someone feel like they are doing a boxing workout is not going to happen when they are sitting on a couch.
In the campaign mode, your create-a-boxer is now limited to a certain number of points, meaning he/she cannot be better than most of the boxers included in the game, which feels a little bit unfair. Counters are now even more ridiculous. When your boxer gets the other boxer miss you become inundated with Maidana-like power for the next punch, which becomes simply ridiculous. For example my boxer got KD by Paulie at 147 after a counter, wtf? The community for round 4 is really nice because people put in the time to make very good replicas of people not in the game. I downloaded a version of Money Mayweather which did a fairly decent job of looking like Mayweather in the philly shell and had decent hand speed.

New Game:
The screen shots look pretty good and they are saying something about a new control style, so don’t be surprised when this game comes out for the Playstation move and Microsoft Kinetic. This is going to be really hard to do correctly but it could be a ton of fun (think of an advanced version of that motion-based arcade boxing game).