'The Ali-Frazier of my lifetime': Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole on Mayweather-Pacquiao

Grandstanding: A Yahoo Sports podcast
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It's fight week! Fight week! FIIIIIIIGHT WEEK! Mayweather-Pacquiao is finally here, and who better to discuss this than Kevin Iole, Yahoo Sports' highly esteemed boxing writer? Iole gives Grandstanding, the Yahoo Sports podcast, his rundown of the fight, including:

• The Hype: Iole says this is "the Ali-Frazier of my lifetime," and this is a guy who's covered every major fight of the last three decades.

• The Fighters: Iole sizes up the slick-moving Floyd Mayweather and the relentless Manny Pacquiao, and offers up both a prediction and a rationale.

• The Controversy: How can we root for Floyd Mayweather given his ugly history? It's something we can't deny and can't disregard.

• The History: Iole recently ranked the top 25 boxers in history, and one Mike Tyson wasn't among them. Why not? Iole schools us.

Thanks for listening to the Grandstanding podcast with Jay Busbee and Kevin Kaduk. Hit us up on Twitter (@kevinkaduk and @jaybusbee) Facebook (Kaduk here, Busbee here) or via the hashtag #grandstanding. See you next ep!

[Music by Chris Salmon and Tobin Summerfield]