okay we watched the fight. as everybody knows by now the fight was basically a “Showcase” to allow Floyd “Money” Mayweather to come back into the market and make more money. his talents as a boxer are legendary (yawn..) as well as his attitude.
we don’t often get into sports chat, but this was a special occasion at our house; and for $50.00 you tell somebody. smdh
Tonite after the fight Mayweather was being interviewed by Max from hbo ppv; and to be honest he was just an ass. so much so that HBO shut off the mic and cut to another group of ringside announcers, just to end the spectacle.
I wonder why he has to take the victory and tarnish it so ?
is it that Floyd has the issue that afflicts many boxers – The Inability to Hear after Boxing. he seems to be unable to hear anyone else after a match. maybe it’s me, but I looked back at some of his previous behaviour and it seems to match Saturday Nite’s performance.
All in all I can assure you that This was NOT a Fight
In fact Floyd paid $600.000 to Marquez PRE-FIGHT because he jumped in the ring to fight at Welterweight Weight – 152 lbs. so as you can see, it was an “arranged match” so to say
his opponent was at the proper weight of 144 for the top weight of 146 for his class. Why didn’t the Marquez camp insert a cotticle into the contract that mirrored the overweight clause – saying that if Floyd is into the next weight class, He Forfeits and Pays the purse to Marquez – Plain and Simple.
That would have made it more of a fight I think
when watching the fight I could swear it was choreographed, like by someone like say Paula Abdul. they should have gotten the guy who did Bad for MJ; because I’m sure he could have made it more realistic, and probably more entertaining. (yawn)
Sugar Shane Mosley was ringside and Floyd made sure to wink at him as he was entering the ring; in his blue fake fur sleeveless hoodie. (yes I said blue fake fur hoodie) I’m sure that this was aimed at bringing suspicion that they may soon be paired in the ring. That’s a Fight Everyone Wants to See, Ohhh Yeah Baby, Especially Sugar Shane Mosley.
Trust Me, I’ll Pay for the Chicken Wings that Nite
it’s being circulating that Floyd plans to take on Manny Pacquiao. just so you and I know that he is serious, and this is not another of his productions – this is the youtube announcement from july 09. I’m not holding my breath waiting on the announcement of the fight, because Floyd is waffling bad.
Pound for Pound Floyd Mayweather is supposed to be the best in the sport at this moment. I personally don’t agree. In fact based on his present condition and past record – I believe that if he were to get into the ring at his present weight with Sugar Shane Mosley; we could all do a little dance and sing a lil song. cause it would be on that nite, Oh Yeah.
Just Look at This Work of Art – Sugar Shane Baby !
Sugar Shane came into the ring post fight during the interview. he tried several times politely at the urging of the ring announcer Max to ask Floyd to Put Up That Belt or Shut The Frick Up. As Per Usual Floyd Jr. was still yappin; but not about the title shot.
I firmly believe now, it’s because he knows he’s gonna get his butt pushed back into the fly weight class that night, LOL. Sugar Shane Honey, Have No Mercy. Please Please Please, as JB Would Have Said.
It is my belief that lightweight intellects who “get” money should hire folks to teach them to keep their mouths shut in public; to prevent anyone knowing how stupid they really MIGHT BE.
That’s enough sports smack from me. We hope you enjoyed the break because it’s back to the grind on Monday.
Watch the Replays of the quite boring and choreographed fight to see for yourself on the hbo site. HBO Should Make Mayweather Refund Everybody’s Money from his stupid fashion show. the only thing missing was Kanye West. Damnn..
Mike Tyson was there so I guess that makes up for it (yikes)
I’m glad I voted for Dave Bing now that it’s all over and done.
from what we can see in this video, he has a plan to work on rejuvenating the city’s resources and capital.
Bing, 65, received 48,951 votes to Cockrel’s 44,703 — a win of 52 percent to 48 percent with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
At his Fort-Shelby Hotel headquarters, Bing took the stage just after 11 p.m.
“Detroit, you have voted for change,” he told the crowd. “I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to say that your vote has allowed me to start work at 6 in the morning.”
Bing laid out an ambitious agenda for the coming months.
“What we will bring to this government is efficiency, transparency, honesty and integrity back to the mayor’s office,” he told the crowd. “…We will make sure that our neighborhoods are safe. We will start immediately to make sure our kids get the best education they can possibly get.”
he’s talking about the housing stock and the way Detroit was the heart and soul of the Middle class. it’s true, that Detroit is one of the largest cities with single family home ownership in the entire USA.
some of those homes are now so badly in disrepair that the city has to make a choice and act quickly, in order to rejuvenate neighborhoods and present a more sell able face for the citizens; and those who Dave hopes to attract to reinvest in Detroit.
This is where the Best Juke Box in America is Located – Yeah Around the Corner from My House. This is Honest Johns.
it’s true that Detroit has major Entertainment capital; with four casinos. no where else in the USA; do you get access to a major waterway which delivers you to a foreign casino just five minutes from the us, with the same friendly faces and come on in attitude.
This is our International Fireworks - Every Year it gets bigger and better. if you watch it from my house, you just stand at the end of my driveway and look downtown. yep I can stand in my driveway and watch the Fireworks.. Who Else Can Say That ??
certainly Not Sarah Palin.. she can only see russia from her backporch.
there’s been so much Detroit Bashing lately that we’ve gotten tired of it, and are going to join Dave in his push to put a smile back on Detroit.
we know it won’t be an easy or instantly achievable task; but we believe he has the stick to it plan and attitude that Detroit needs now.
Big Hats and High Tea – May 9, 2009; World Medical Relief is hosting. The afternoon (1-4 p.m.) garden party (rain or shine) will take place at the Terrace of the Eleanor and Edsel Ford House, 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores. The guests are encouraged to show off their hats or headdress. Diana Lewis, anchor of “Action News” of WXYZ-TV Channel 7 and Mil Hurley, advanced master gardener and television show host of Pointes of Horticulture at Grosse Pointe’s WMTV Channel 5, will be the emcees. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased by calling 313-866-5333.
Inforum Annual Meeting featuring Martha Stewart – May 15, 2009; Inforum, Michigan’s largest business organization for women, will feature a keynote address by Martha Stewart at its 47th Annual Meeting luncheon at the Detroit-Marriott Renaissance Center. Inforum members, $50; Non-members, $70. (Add $10 after 5/10/2009 and at the door.) The public is invited to attend a book signing at approximately 2:30 p.m. Martha will sign copies of her best-selling books “Martha Stewart’s Encyclopedia of Crafts” and “Martha Stewart’s Cookies
” — available for purchase on site.
Long Term Care Summit – May 15, 2009; 8:00 am to 12:00 pm; Greater Grace Conference Center; 23500 West Seven Mile Road. At the Long Term Care Summit, the Community Advocacy Network will engage in developing an advocacy strategy for the Detroit Long Term Care System Change Task Force public policy agenda and form advocacy groups within the State Senate districts to galvanize the community and legislature. To get more information, call their RSVP Hotline at (313) 446-4444, extension 5228.
Jazzy Soul Collective – May 17, 2009; 7pm; Charles L. Wright Museum; Featuring Anthony David, Eric Roberson, and Angela Johnson. Tickets $30 (non-members), $25 (members).
it’s time to move that very same attitude into the neighborhoods and revive the true heart of Detroit – It’s Citizens.
Yes Mr Bing, we hear you and we’re watching you develop your plan for reinvestment, and reunification of Detroit. We hope you remember that Detroit is ALL Of Us. not just the Middle class. but the folks who live in the Southwest on Fixed Incomes; the seniors who live in the myriad of city subsidized buildings on the east and west sides; and don’t forget the kids who are deprived of Rec Centers and After school Programs to give them developing sportsmanship and team player skills.
this is the camaraderie that we need. that’s why Ken Cockrell Jr. is no longer mayor. he was not a team player, and the citizens recognized it clearly. his management skills and financial connections weren’t going to take the city anywhere; when you can’t get folks on the same council you’ve sat on for 10 years to agree to work together for the betterment of Detroit.
I hope that some of you will leave a few questions, which I will be submitting to Mr. Bing on his new website. we hope that he is more accessible to the press and the community than his predecessors were; and amenable to telling us what he really has planned.
Don’t Forget This is a Man who will be in office for eight months, and then have to run for that same office again, based on his performance during those short eight months.
Lets Hear It Y’all,
with all that said, here’s a bit more on the developments in the D.
DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) – Businessman and NBA great Dave Bing has won the Special Election for Detroit Mayor, defeating Ken Cockrel, Jr. Bing will now complete the remainder of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s second term.
With 100% of the votes counted, Bing had 52% of the vote to Cockrel’s 48%. About 15% of eligible voters came to the polls Tuesday.
In an 11 p.m. victory speech, Bing pledged efficiency, transparency, honesty, and integrity.
A sampling of the city’s precincts revealed Dave Bing had won most of them. Among 30 precincts deemed representative of the city as a whole, the new mayor was the winner in all but 2 – one of those was the home district of his opponent, Ken Cockrel, Jr.
Bing is a successful businessman. His company, The Bing Group, is an automotive supplier located in Detroit. Once a professional basketball player for the Pistons, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990.
Cockrel was once the youngest person elected to Detroit’s city council. He was the council’s president when former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigned in September 2008. At that point, Cockrel became the city’s interim mayor.
Another regularly scheduled mayoral primary will take place in August 2009, with a November General Election set to determine the city’s next mayor to be elected to a 4-year term.
Elizabeth Kunkle and Caitlin Blair: April 15, 2009 • From Lansing State Journal
In the shadow of the ailing Detroit Three, how can we bring Detroit back to its entrepreneurial glory years? This is a huge issue, given that financial failure of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford could result in approximately 3 million jobs lost in the first year alone.
Michigan was considered an entrepreneurial giant in the heyday of American automotive innovation, but today, as creativity and adaptability in the American automobile industry stagnate, Michigan is left with little to show.
This story, however, is nothing new.
Pittsburgh, no more than 300 miles away, went through a similar struggle 30 years ago with the collapse of its signature industry, steel. Anderson Cooper at CNN explains in his blog: “Pittsburgh, in effect, died. It had to find a way to reinvent itself after it had been relying on just one industry for economic growth for so long.”
Today, Pittsburgh has one of the lowest home foreclosure rates in the nation; has an unemployment rate less than a third of Detroit’s (6.3 percent versus 22.2 percent in January 2009); and is seeing extraordinary economic growth at a time when the rest of the nation is hurting.
But it took Pittsburgh many years and much work to get to where it is. In the past decade, there has been a cohesive effort by state and local government, universities, nonprofits and businesses to foster economic growth. One recent trend in Pittsburgh is the establishment and expansion of university-business partnerships.
Universities, nonprofits, and businesses have worked to grow not only local industry, but also a citywide atmosphere of innovation and cooperation. The government further supports this by funding redevelopment extensively and offering tax breaks to new businesses.
Pittsburgh has been almost impervious to the nationwide economic downturn because of its financial conservatism and its active participation in a large variety of industries rather than reliance on a sole sector. Detroit can take a few lessons from this.
Although it’s too late to stop the housing bubble from bursting, or to stop Michiganders from overextending their credit lines, Michigan can use this risk-averse environment to its advantage by practicing a more modest and long-term financial model resembling Pittsburgh’s. Detroit has to stop looking for one new industry to save the economic situation, and start looking at multiple sectors where it can best utilize its existing resources and intellectual capital. We can expand in areas where we know we have a competitive advantage and encourage our financial sector to follow, as The New York Times states in its article on the subject, the “resolutely unadventurous” credit model set forth by PNC Bank (the Pittsburgh National Corporation).
Putting aside individual agendas and using a more collaborative model would help unite Michigan businesses, universities, and government under a common goal of fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. Like Pittsburghers, people in Detroit must be patient in implementing changes such as these.
However, if we can successfully combine these ideas to emulate Pittsburgh’s model, one can only hope to see an economically revitalized Detroit a few decades from now.
Casino Windsor first opened in 1994 to overflowing crowds. A permanent casino followed in 1998 and has been continually successful. With several permanent casino/hotel complexes planned for Detroit, a $400 million expansion was announced in 2005 that included an additional 400-room hotel tower.
Casino Windsor became Caesars Windsor in 2008 when its expansion was unveiled. Even before the Caesars expansion, the casino/hotel had achieved many “best of” awards and a CAA/AAA Four-Diamond standing. It also has the advantage of a legal gambling/drinking age of 19. A 2006 Ontario smoking ban and the falling value of the American dollar in Canada, however, may prove a disadvantage.
The Greektown Casino complex has evolved over time in the thriving Greektown neighborhood of Detroit. The casino itself is located on the People Mover route in what was once a multiple-floor, indoor mall known as “Trapper’s Alley.” In addition to the Athenian — a nearby, unaffiliated hotel — the 30-story, 400-room Greektown Casino Hotel opened in mid February of 2009. The hotel and parking structure is connected to the casino via a skyway over Monroe Avenue. Recent roadwork in the area makes the complex easily accessible off of I-375.
The MGM Grand is consistently the revenue leader of the three downtown Detroit casinos. Name recognition may be a factor, but its temporary location (in the former Federal Building) near area freeways was also a benefit. Its permanent location was built just a few blocks away, but better reflects its parent company’s commitment to elegance and majesty. The MGM casino is spacious and “grand,” lacking the level of smoke that seems to relentlessly hover at its competitors’ casinos. The MGM, however, also lacks the signature design elements of the MotorCity and the ethnic identity of the Greektown neighborhood.
MotorCity’s casino is housed in the former Wonder Bread Factory, located just outside the downtown area in a relatively isolated section. Even so, the temporary casino’s revenue approached that of MGM’s most months. When it came time to build its permanent complex, MotorCity chose to expand on and redesign its existing site.
With its future-retro design, MotorCity arguably has the most style and flare of the three Detroit casino/hotels. Its location, however, continues to work to its disadvantage, as does its multiple-floor casino; while gaming space has been added with lofty ceilings and signature design elements, other areas of the casino suffer in comparison with smoky, low-ceiling rooms.
Tonite after the fight Mayweather was being interviewed by Max from hbo ppv; and to be honest he was just an ass. so much so that HBO shut off the mic and cut to another group of ringside announcers, just to end the spectacle.
Sugar Shane came into the ring post fight during the interview. he tried several times politely at the urging of the ring announcer Max to ask Floyd to Put Up That Belt or Shut The Frick Up. As Per Usual Floyd Jr. was still yappin; but not about the title shot.
It is my belief that lightweight intellects who “get” money should hire folks to teach them to keep their mouths shut in public; to prevent anyone knowing how stupid they really MIGHT BE.
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