This post was originally going to be about the news that Don King is in the preliminary stages of setting up a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Felix Trinidad. I was going to say Trinidad was getting in the ring so he could get his ass kicked and be carried out on his shield like all the great boxers do. It’s never enough to ride off into the sunset a winner, true warriors always have to be beaten into retirement (Ali, Tyson, De La Hoya, Foreman, Sugar Ray, etc).

But then it hit me.

Felix Trinidad isn’t a boxing legend and certainly isn’t in the same class of anyone I’ve mentioned above. Look at the biggest names on his resume. He beat an over the hill Hector Camacho, an over the hill Pernell Whitaker, an inexperienced Fernando Vargas, and an overrated walking target named Ricardo Mayorga. Don’t give me that De La Hoya bullshit either, because any true fan can tell you Trinidad didnt *win* anything, Oscar gave it away by being a sissy in the late rounds. In the last 8 years he’s only fought five times, and lost 3 of those in lopsided contests.

I understand Puerto Ricans love the guy and everything, but facts are facts. If Don King manages to get him in the ring this year, it’s only going to result in another embarrassing loss to a better fighter.