boxing for unity

so mayweather fought that canelo dude tonight and i didn't watch it. honestly, i just wanna pass it off as two dumb millionaires punching the crap out of each other and why would i wanna watch that? but they're probably not that dumb because they make a ton of money doing what they do. still, it's just two rich dudes punching each other's faces. what's with the massive interest?

i could try and wax philosophical about human blood lust and how the most primal parts of our being connect with this sorta thing. people love a fight. it's not just boxing. it happens in bars and streets and schoolyards. and when it happens, most of the time there's a bunch of people standing around and gawking. we love to watch people beat each other up.

i happened to be walking through jersey city tonight as the fight was happening. and i passed a ton of apartments and houses with wide open windows where you could hear people having fun and enjoying themselves at get togethers that were thrown for the fight. and i guess that's sorta cool. that's an unexpected positive result from two people beating each other senseless in front of cameras.

i suppose it's all in the speech at the end of rocky 4 when rocky tells the crowd that everyone changed during that fight. and that if two people can hurt each other instead of 20 million people hurting each other, then isn't that the better option? rocky 4 probably ended the cold war. there's real power to bring people together through people fighting each other.

sure, the world wasn't saved tonight. i don't think any major wars were avoided. but just for one night a bunch of people in a bunch of places had an excuse to leave their house and go hang out with other human beings. we're living in a world where people interacting with each other in person is becoming a less common thing. so i like to think that two people making millions of dollars beating the holy hell out of each other did actually, for maybe a moment or so, make the world a better place.

enjoy your mansions fellas. thanks for the memories.