I used to love boxing until Don King destroyed it in the mid to late 90's and turned it into a freak show with bogus results and a decreasingly fraudulent heavyweight division.

MMA (I can't stand that crap) took over and young people watch that and not boxing.

That being said, this will be the most viewed fight in history.

$99 PPV is ridiculous, but bars are charging $20 which isn't so bad considering it's $11,000 for each bar via Comcast.

Is anyone planning on watching it somehow?

And, who does anyone see winning and how long will it go?

I'm not the biggest boxing fan, but I do watch sometimes. Two buddies asked me to host a viewing (they like my TV LOL) so we'll each put in $33 and watch it. I can stand Mayweather. I hope he gets his criminal ass knocked out, but I wouldn't bet on it.

I plan to go see this at a friend's place. Looking forward to it after all these years of waiting.

I don't know, I feel that Pacquiao is a little predictable in his aggression -- he throws mostly straights with very few hooks and uppercuts. He has this fencing style of closing the distance and I feel it's tailor made for a fast counter puncher like Floyd Mayweather. He's physically gifted enough to have it work against most fighters but I am doubtful it works as well against a counter-puncher as talented as Pretty Boy Floyd.

Before the last Marquez fight, I watched all of the Pacquiao / Marquez fights on HBO On Demand. Pacquiao won razor thing decisions there, with Marquez's counter fighting really giving Pacman fits. That's what made me feel Mayweather had the edge -- he does everything Marquez does, but he does it better, faster, and is larger than Marquez. And as if to drive that point home, he completely smoked Marquez in their fight without much trouble.

I will be rooting for Manny, but if I were to bet my own money, I have to put it on Mayweather.

I'm still picking Mayweather to win, but it won't be nearly as entertaining as the Pacquiao-Marquez battles.

MMA (I can't stand that crap) took over and young people watch that and not boxing.

Can Pac Man pull off the upset?

I think he can if he really varies the rhythm that he throws punches with (so Floyd can't get the timing down for counter-punches), stays very active, and somehow lures Floyd into more of a slugfest than a slower paced technical boxing match. It's just really hard to do.

This is how far boxing has slipped, though - my son, who is a huge sports fan, asked me why this was such a big deal. He said he got that it was two guys everybody wants to see fight, but he couldn't understand why it was so hyped. Hard to imagine how his generation would look at Tyson-Holyfield, or Ali-Frazier or Ali-Foreman.

Out of curiosity, why do you hate it? It's definitely a fight-sport that's much closer to how real fighting is (as evidenced by the ease in which aging MMA champ Randy Couture beat aging boxing champ James Toney).

In any case, I think their PPV numbers are down as well. Their top stars have aged and are no longer in their primes and the fighters coming up behind them just aren't the draws they were.

What's nice about MMA is that the UFC is the dominant organization, so you pretty much have one definitive world champion, champions must fight top contenders or lose their title, far less weight classes, and PPVs are generally more satisfying and worth the purchase price.

I find it too primitive and less graceful than what boxing used to be.

I watched the Klitschko fight on HBO last week (didn't realize he was married to Hayden Panettiere, but they showed her about 2,000 times) and is that the best we've got in the heavyweight division?

Any idea of the start time EST? I'm assuming there is a large undercard?