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Damn, that’s a boat load of cash that Floyd “Money”, “Pretty Boy”, “The Greatest Fighter on Earth” Mayweather, Jr. is apparently getting to step in the ring with the Big Show at Wrestlemania 24. Twenty million dollars will buy “Money” a bunch of J.R.’s Bar-B-Q, let me tell you and even a few “I’ve Got Big Nuts” T-shirts, which you should be ordering today for yourself. I still don’t know what the match stipulations will be, but considering that Big Show is going to box an exhibition bout on the next Monday Night Raw, one could assume that the Mayweather-Show attraction at WM24 will be a boxing contest. However, we all know what happens when one assumes, especially in the wrestling biz, don’t we?

Many boxing purists have expressed concerns about Mayweather venturing into the world of sports entertainment, as if professional boxing was pristine. Mayweather’s decision to perform against the 400 pound Big Show could send shock waves through the boxing world if Floyd were to get injured and for one to say that can’t happen could be considered Pet Coon goofy. For the record, how much publicity is enough to cover a $20M tab? I don’t have that answer, but if 1,000,000 fans world wide buy the pay per view on March 30 then the investment in Mayweather most likely would have been a good one. The investment in Mayweather and the P.R. it will garner after WM24 is worth a bunch. One thing is for sure and that is Mayweather has a lightning rod-like personality that motivates many fans to dislike him and that is not likely to change between now and WM24.

I just wish I would have been invited to attend the Wrestlemania 24 Press Conference to see if I could have picked up an extra hundred or two of Floyd’s “walking around” money he threw out to the crowd.

By the way, the late Gorilla Monsoon used to carry upwards to ten grand in his front pocket with a large rubber band wrapped around the cash instead of using a money clip. I asked him once why he carried so much cash with him and Gorilla replied, “I might want to buy something.” Bobby Heenan, who was standing nearby, then said, “What….a ranch?” Read the entire blog, click here.

- The USA Network has announced that in addition to the three hour edition of Raw on March 10th, the April 7th edition will also be three hours long.