“Mayweather-Berto is a fight even Mayweather’s most devoted acolytes are struggling to work themselves rigid over. But enough of Mayweather’s self-appointed members of The Money Team: those in their ranks whose primary interest was never boxing will, as Bart Barry put it with his typical acuity, be gone soon enough. The rest will have a library of fights to worship if not watch, some articles of clothing; the satisfaction of knowing their man is clearly TBE since the present, by virtue of their living it, is clearly better than the past.”

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