Fair Play: Don't mind the Mayweathers, Manny
I SWORE not to write anything related to Floyd Mayweather (Jr. and Sr.) or Manny Pacquiao this week.
But I had to make an exception after reading Dan Wetzel’s column in Yahoo titled “Politician Pacquiao sending out a muddy message.”
Wetzel wrote that the real reason Mayweather vs. Pacquiao wasn’t Mayweather’s insistence on an Olympic type drug-testing.
Then he wrote about how after Pacquiao agreed on a 24-day window (no testing 24 days before the fight), Mayweather conceded to a 14-day window.
After that, both fighters wouldn’t budge and that impasse killed the fight.
So, he said it wasn’t because of Mayweather’s insistence on an Olympic-type doping test that the fight didn’t push through and here he is, saying the fight fell through because both fighters couldn’t agree on a blood test?
A test Mayweather insisted on?
Talk about a muddy message.
When all this brouhaha about Pacquiao doping started, everybody who wasn’t a Mayweather thought it was a joke.
I thought it was just one of those things boxers say to promote a fight. Remember Mike Tyson saying he was going to eat Lennox Lewis’s children?
How it came to this, I really don’t know. It has become too polluted that fans from both sides are hurling racist and absurd comments.
Just a few months ago, Roger Mayweather said in an interview that he based his accusation on how bullets from the guns of US soldiers couldn’t harm Pinoys in the US-Philippines war 500 years ago (his time frame).
Those Pinoys were on drugs, so Pacquiao must be, he said.
Boy, I hope the Mayweathers wouldn’t meet a huramentado.
Now, because of the Internet, boxers who want to be noticed only have to say Pac is on drugs.
Have you heard of Paulie Malignaggi? This bloke who couldn’t beat Ricky Hatton is parroting Mayweather to get his share of the limelight.
I am not a member of Team Pacquiao but I do hope he doesn’t shift from his position. He’s got to prove he’s innocent, because the Mayweathers said he is guilty?
That, I think, is why Pacquiao won’t go beyond 24 days. For him, having to do blood-testing is concession enough, guys like Dan Wetzel be damned.
Besides, he doesn’t need a Mayweather fight to cement his legacy. Mayweather, who some fans think has cherry-picked his way to an undefeated record, needs to beat
Pacquiao to cement his.
Pacquiao has shown a different facet of the sport to the fans. He showed that you don’t have to insult your foes to hype your fight. That, according to some experts, is why Pacquiao has gained lots of fans.
Guys like the Mayweathers and Malignaggi don’t know how to do that since they have turned insulting foes into an art form.
PCOS MACHINERY. By the way, I hope Manny wins his congressional battle today.
What will Pacman do in Congress, you ask? Well, what did Erap do in the Senate? Or for that matter, Lito Lapid and Bong Revilla? (Ever noticed how Revilla’s ads are all about his new name rather than his accomplishments?)
What can Pacquiao do? For starters, and this is the biggest reason I want him to win, he can end the grip of the Chiongbian dynasty in Sarangani.
The ruling family has treated the Congressional seat as an heirloom, something to be passed from one member to another. It’s the same elsewhere.
A Pacquiao victory, it seems, is also destined. PCOS says so:
Pacquiao, Congressman of Sarangani.
But I had to make an exception after reading Dan Wetzel’s column in Yahoo titled “Politician Pacquiao sending out a muddy message.”
Wetzel wrote that the real reason Mayweather vs. Pacquiao wasn’t Mayweather’s insistence on an Olympic type drug-testing.
Then he wrote about how after Pacquiao agreed on a 24-day window (no testing 24 days before the fight), Mayweather conceded to a 14-day window.
After that, both fighters wouldn’t budge and that impasse killed the fight.
So, he said it wasn’t because of Mayweather’s insistence on an Olympic-type doping test that the fight didn’t push through and here he is, saying the fight fell through because both fighters couldn’t agree on a blood test?
A test Mayweather insisted on?
Talk about a muddy message.
When all this brouhaha about Pacquiao doping started, everybody who wasn’t a Mayweather thought it was a joke.
I thought it was just one of those things boxers say to promote a fight. Remember Mike Tyson saying he was going to eat Lennox Lewis’s children?
How it came to this, I really don’t know. It has become too polluted that fans from both sides are hurling racist and absurd comments.
Just a few months ago, Roger Mayweather said in an interview that he based his accusation on how bullets from the guns of US soldiers couldn’t harm Pinoys in the US-Philippines war 500 years ago (his time frame).
Those Pinoys were on drugs, so Pacquiao must be, he said.
Boy, I hope the Mayweathers wouldn’t meet a huramentado.
Now, because of the Internet, boxers who want to be noticed only have to say Pac is on drugs.
Have you heard of Paulie Malignaggi? This bloke who couldn’t beat Ricky Hatton is parroting Mayweather to get his share of the limelight.
I am not a member of Team Pacquiao but I do hope he doesn’t shift from his position. He’s got to prove he’s innocent, because the Mayweathers said he is guilty?
That, I think, is why Pacquiao won’t go beyond 24 days. For him, having to do blood-testing is concession enough, guys like Dan Wetzel be damned.
Besides, he doesn’t need a Mayweather fight to cement his legacy. Mayweather, who some fans think has cherry-picked his way to an undefeated record, needs to beat
Pacquiao to cement his.
Pacquiao has shown a different facet of the sport to the fans. He showed that you don’t have to insult your foes to hype your fight. That, according to some experts, is why Pacquiao has gained lots of fans.
Guys like the Mayweathers and Malignaggi don’t know how to do that since they have turned insulting foes into an art form.
PCOS MACHINERY. By the way, I hope Manny wins his congressional battle today.
What will Pacman do in Congress, you ask? Well, what did Erap do in the Senate? Or for that matter, Lito Lapid and Bong Revilla? (Ever noticed how Revilla’s ads are all about his new name rather than his accomplishments?)
What can Pacquiao do? For starters, and this is the biggest reason I want him to win, he can end the grip of the Chiongbian dynasty in Sarangani.
The ruling family has treated the Congressional seat as an heirloom, something to be passed from one member to another. It’s the same elsewhere.
A Pacquiao victory, it seems, is also destined. PCOS says so:
Pacquiao, Congressman of Sarangani.
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