Video: The new Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather promo is suitably epic

At last, the wait is almost over.

There's not long left until fight fans get to see the one that almost got away. The Great White Buffalo of combat sports. The fight that everyone wanted to see, but nobody believed it would ever happen. On May 2nd, two of the greatest pugilists of the modern era will step inside the ring and slug it out in a bid to claim the ultimate bragging rights. The first and only eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao will face the man with the unblemished record, Floyd Mayweather, in what in one of the most highly anticipated bouts in the history of the sport. The get everyone psyched up for the superfight, a promo has been released that is more epic than the Iliad. An orchestral ballad booms over a poetic narration which details both boxers' rise to prominence in the sport and the sparse differences between the ethoi of both fighters' camps. This is the one we've been waiting for and at last, it's almost here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFylCaP7xpM Hat-tip to Reddit