Last Stop, Las Vegas: The battle for immortality descends into a quasi-retirement package

A (not so) learned sage once altered the expression “it’s better late than never” by including the addendum “but never late is better”. 

While Canadian rapper Drake is unlikely to be confused with Aristotle any time soon, there is a profoundness about that particular lyric. In fact, so applicable is it to tomorrow's meeting between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao that it might as well be the blurb on the fight poster.

Although admittedly past its prime, this much anticipated battle of east and west still amounts to the richest prospective match-up in boxing. Mayweather’s status as the sport’s veritable cash cow, after all, is more resolute now than it’s ever been.