The Big Fight

It's been a while since I got excited about a boxing match - the last few years have been mainly spent watching the UFC variety of fighting. However, we did have a blast going to see Ricky in his first fight in Vegas earlier in the year, and since then we've watched a couple of decent Calzaghe fights.

But now Ricky has the biggest fight of his career, against Floyd Mayweather - the guy with the biggest mouth in boxing (maybe) but with the skills to back it up. It's going to be a good one - two very different styles of fighter, but both unbeaten so far in their professional career. If Ricky wins this one, it'll make him a superstar over here, especially if he wins it in style. It's being hyped up on both sides of the Atlantic, with the BBC seemingly updating their pre-fight pages every few hours.

My brother pinged me this afternoon to say he was watching the weigh-in, and through the wonders of the internet, I was able to watch it stream live from the HBO site at the same time. Ricky looks in great shape, and I'm hoping Mayweather is getting a little lazy now that he's got so many championships.

But, it looks like we're probably not going to see it live - we did debate going down there for it, but then things conspired against us (going back home, skint, too many trips to Vegas already etc etc). It turned out ok though, as Heidi's new company has their Christmas gig tomorrow night, so chances are we'll be there. Some friends are debating getting the fight though so we may call in on the way home. Either way, I'm more excited for a boxing match than I have been for a very long time. Come on Ricky!!