There is something big for everyone this weekend in TV land.
US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (R) and Mexican-American boxer Oscar De La Hoya pose for photographs following their weigh-in at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada on 04 May 2007. Mayweather and De La Hoya will fight for the WBC super welterweight championship on Saturday, May 05 in Las Vegas. EPA/LAURA RAUCH
First, the long-awaited fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on HBO. I just ordered it and I am totally psyched for the match.
Golden boy De La Hoya is boxing's most notable fighter outside of the heavyweight division since "Sugar" Ray Leonard during the 1980s.
He looks like a movie star, has a user friendly rico suave persona, and is one of the few boxers who is known by sportaphobics, old ladies and little children too.
De La Hoya's fight tonight against undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. has generated a ton of interest, more than any boxing bout in the nearly five years since Lennox Lewis whooped Tyson, and I will be watching.
The stats are: Oscar De La Hoya (38-4, 30 KOs) vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (37-0, 24 KOs)
At stake: WBC super welterweight title.
The venue? The MGM Grand Garden Arena; Las Vegas
How do you get to see it? HBO Pay-Per-View ($54.95)
HBO lists the televised portion of the fight card will begin at 9 p.m., with undefeated Filipino super bantamweight Rey Bautista (22-0, 17 KOs) and Argentina's Sergio Manuel Medina (28-0, 16 KOs) meeting in a 12-round WBO elimination match.
The second of three televised fights will match Houston's Rocky Juarez (26-3, 19 KOs) against Jose Hernandez (22-3, 14 KOs) in a 10-round featherweight encounter..
De La Hoya, now 34, has accomplished plenty, and can justify induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame the first year he becomes eligible.
"I respect everything Oscar has accomplished in this sport," Mayweather, 30, said to reporters, "but this time he's in over his head."
Nag fans rejoice, the American blue chip horse racing event, The Kentucky Derby, is underway.
Women copying the belles of Ascot don enormous hats, sip mint juleps, and hope to get a peek at our favorite visiting dignitary, Queen Elizabeth II, loved by so many here.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth is capping of her whirlwind and very thoughtful tour of Virginia, where she offered words of comfort to the traumatized Virginia Tech families.
She has now turned her attention to her guilty pleasure, the horses.
The charming Southern setting of Churchill Downs has a bit of a British accent in anticipation of the first visit by the queen, whose admirers placed a long string of the British Union Jack flags along the flowered paddock near the racetrack's entrance in her honor.
Say what you like, Americans do love, honor and respect the royals of Britain.
The 133rd "run for the roses" is guaranteed to be a wonderful spectacle.
Lastly, tonight also has the big buzz debut of Showtime's "Original Latin Divas" - four smart and funny women who set the stage on fire with their humor and observations of la vida loca. The featured women are hilarious in their 2006 concert that brings together the best female comic Latin voices in America: Mexicana Marilyn Martinez, "New Yorican" Sara Contreras, Cubana Monique Marvez, and Tejana Sandra Valls.
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