IT WAS in September 2007 when the boxing ring at Madison Square Garden was retired. The same ring had been in use for 82 years and letting it go was emotional.
Yep, that means Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard shared a ring. It means that Roberto Duran and Ricky Hatton shared a ring. And Marvin Hagler and Joe Calzaghe. It is endless, but there is no Floyd Mayweather in the fantasy game. He never fought at the Garden.
The old ring, the Garden ring, was finally put out of use by the demands of Oleg Maskaev, who at the time was the WBC heavyweight titlist. The ring used by heavyweight icons,
