Pacquiao voted WBO Fighter of the Year?
October 31st, 2010
By Dave Lahr: The World Boxing Organization has decided to give Manny Pacquiao the Fighter of the Year for 2010, and I don’t have a clue why. Thus far, Pacquiao has beaten Joshua Clottey in one of the most boring fights I can remember ever seeing in March. Pacquiao hasn’t even finished the year, and he’s going to take a vicious beating from Antonio Margarito on November 13th.
How is that going to make the WBO look when Pacquiao gets ripped to pieces by the proud Mexican warrior? Man, what kind of an award is this? The year isn’t even finished and they’re already shoving it down Pacquiao’s throat.
Also, Marquez looked a lot better in that fight in my estimation than the way Pacquiao did in beating Clottey. Pacquiao was throwing arm punches to increase his punch volume and mostly just hitting gloves all night long.
Pacquiao’s punch connect percentage was anemic for that fight. He looked awful like he was fighting with his eyes closed. How can the WBO see the Pacquiao-Clottey fight and then call Pacquiao the Fighter of the Year? Give it to Marquez or Juan Manuel Lopez. I really liked the way Lopez looked in wiping out Bernabe Concepcion in two fast paced rounds in July of this year. That fight was much more impressive than Pacquiao’s win over Clottey.
Besides, Pacquiao is going to get his back side handed to him by Margarito and will finish 2010 with a 1-1 record. That isn’t a Fighter of the Year in my book.
I can just see Pacquiao showing up black and blue, lips busted, eyes cut, teeth missing at the WBO’s headquarters to pick up his award after losing to Margarito. He should just then turn around and give the award to Margarito for his wins over Roberto Garcia and Pacquiao.
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David lahr shouldn’t even write about boxing your an idiot what was margarito gonna do to pacquiao? Pacquiao only won every round broke margacheato”s right orbitol bone and rearranged his face maybe you should write about tennis or soccer!!!! I bet you feel like an idiot!!!! I know your obviously a manny hater, but he really mad you look foolish. Manny the best fighter ever close this dumb ass site out and write about something you know about!!!!!!!!!!! jealous ones envy……
Dave Lahr,
Admit your wrong and maybe you’ll get back some respect. Otherwise your a putz!
PACMAN again!!!! his he only the boxer in this PLANET????
Catchweight is nothing, cause margarito will come at 160 lbs in fight night..and manny will be just 150 lbs.
@DAVE LIAHR…WIN OR LOSE, PACQUIAO’S ALREADY BEEN CEMENTED IN THE HISTORY BOOK OF ATG…NOW, STUFF THAT IN A GLASSPIPE AND SMOKE IT!
HAHAHA… F UCK YOU DAVID LAHR!!!!! DONT WORRY YOU’LL ALSO BE HAVING YOUR AWARD SOON: MENTAL PATIENT OF THE YEAR AWARD HEHEHE
Does that mean you are more intelligent than those HBO people? That you know a lot of things they don’t know? WOW man you’re SUPER!
Antonio Margarito will show just how good Manny Pacquiao is.
A severe beat down is in store for Manny Pacquiao, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!
Manny Pacquiao will soon be exposed. The same as the WBO for prematurely giving an award when it is undeserved.
pac man dont deserve this award either does floyd but if your going to compare the 2 pac win over a poor clotty or floyds win over mosley i think any1 without wool over there eyes sees who should have got it outa them 2….dave lahr has a point with some of the boxers he mentiond but also think the heavyweight champ should have been in with a shout aswell…pac man will destroy margo as he is poor and overated but pacman fans will tell u hes the best lol all i can say is there r some madmen out there
I forgot to mention that it would also have been equally dumb to suggest that Floyd Willnever (fight Manny) should have gotten the award. For one fight in 2010 where he looked so vulnerable against Mosley, why should he be given it either? If Mosley was not so burnt out after the 2nd round and that is/was the biggest puzzle to me, then he would today be an after thought with no more “0″ on his record.
It is a shame to see a guy with so much talent, Hall of Fame but with Hall of Shame behaviour in the statements he has been making about Manny. And don’t forget Hall of Shame guts for not wanting to fight Manny for all that money. Yet he is the self proclaimed “Money Man” and Greatest of all time. Get the eff out of here!
Let me begin by emphasizing that I am a huge fan of Manny and have been for years before he became a mega star. But this is ridiculous! Sure he beat Clottey from post to post but to be fair, Clottey did nothing.
If I were Manny I would politely refuse to accept the award as it is not earned, at least not yet. I am sure he will beat Margarito but for him to earn it, he will have to destroy and Ko Margarito and even then I can’t say for sure that he deserves it.
I can’t stand boxing being a popularity contest. Manny is my favourite boxer and in my opinion the most exciting and P4P No 1. but why give him the award when he had only one extremely boring, onesided fight? The previous awards were well deserved but not this one.
Again, the alphabet clubs are just making a fool of boxing. No wonder my kids and grand-kids have no interest in my favourite sport. They are into the fake wrestling and the extremely brutal MMA.
Manny ‘PACMAN’ Pacquio is the greatest fighter of the century that was not beaten in any other terms by Dave Lahr, Chris Williams and Perez. They are all the same person and are really looking forward to the defeat of Pacman. This writer is really crazy to see the Pacman lose because they are all jealous of the Pacman winning all the awards in boxing. They all wish that Marquez, Hatton, Barrera, Morales, Cotto, dela Hoya, Diaz, Clottey, etal defeat the Pacman but was not able to fulfill. Even Mayweather Jr does not want to fight the Pacman resulting in just beating up a woman. These triumvirate of Lahr, Williams and Perez are hoping that a boxer who faces Pacquiao can someday defeat BWAA’s boxer of the decade. They now wish that Margarito will finish their streak of losses. Unfortunately, these fools are still hurting and their egos are crashed. They will still act the same even after Margarito has been beaten by Pacquiao. What can you do? They are so jealous about the accomplishments of the Pacman.
Don’t hate Divina, she’s my Amiga. She need money to fix her rotten ass. Spare also her fellow beauticians, Manuela and Christina.
@jn…….THERE’S HOSPITAL FOR CRAZY PEOPLE AND CAN BE FUNDED BY THE GOVERMENT…..BUT SADLY NOTHING AND NO CURE FOR STUPID STUPID STUPID PEOPLE LIKE LAHR, WILLIAMS AND PEREZ
How can u say pacquiao will get beat by margarito when the fight hasn’t happen yet… So stupid that i must answer also stupid reasonings.
No brain just plain stupidity here.
THEY LOVE GIVING PAPER TITLES AND GARBAGE AWARDS TO STEROID USERS
Twelve (12) days to go….. and you’ll see why.
Dave lier..WBO has the intelligence and knowledge that you moron dont have.think of it before you talk and who brings more money to the coffer?ha!watch out for 2011….it might be MANNY again.SUCK YOUR DAY!
Who should get the writer of the year for boxing news 24?
Chris williams
Dave lhar
William mckay
Jason kim
Scott gilfoid
Jim dower
Daniel tagg
Marquise bullock
Dan ambrose
Liam santiago
Manuel perez (deceased)
Who else?
I say oh well. They (boxing organizations) knows boxing and I don’t. Who cares as long I get what I want. Entertainment.
@lobo_mayflower took castillo lightly got his ass kicked and was given a gift decision…so his “0″ dont fit
Dave perhaps your pal Shannon BRIGGS should have got it. You are a joke.
“LET US USE OUR EYES AND BRAIN”
It is very obvious that the article in this column is trying to portray not attracting sales about the bout between PACMAN AND MARGARITO. And as much as possible is trying to discourage boxing fans from watching the fight at the COWBOY STADIUM, because of the venue is not done in Las Vegas and tries to discredit PACMAN MOST ESPECIALLY DAVE LAHR AND CRIS WILLIAMS AND PACMAN HATERS. This is a great and real fight not fixed compared to FLOYD MAYWEATHER AND SHANE MOSLEY. When a fight is exciting causing bodily injuries, its real not fixed. WATCH THE FIGHT OF MOSLEY AND MAYWEATHER, that is the most complete fixed game as some people believe.
Pac is one of if not the greatest of all time ,This fight he took with Margo will be very tough and he could lose.FMjr would never take a fight that he had any possabilty of losing ,All fight fans rejoice that we have Manny,you wont see his like again
i proposed that NO MORE CATCHWEIGHT…
we’ll just tie down bigger and taller guys to a stretch chair if they want to fight smaller guys…..
THE CATCH WEIGHT”
LOT OF PEOPLE FIND IT HARD TO COMPREHEND OF WHAT IS A CATCH WEIGHT. IMAGINE MATCHING PACMAN TO BIGGER AND HEAVIER WEIGHT? THERE MUST BE A “CATCH WEIGHT”! IN THE SAME LOGIC, YOU CANNOT MATCH A FIGHTER WHO IS LIGHTWEIGHT TO A WELTERWEIGHT OR A WELTERWEIGHT TO A MIDDLEWEIGHT AND A MIDDLE WEIGHT TO AN HEAVYWEIGHT. I UNDERSTAND THAT ONLY IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION WHERE THERE IS NO “CATCHWEIGHT”. IT IS FOR THIS REASON WHY THERE IS AN AGREEMENT TO WEIGH THE SAME LEVEL OF WEIGHT AT TIME OF WEIGH IN – THE SO CALLED “CATCH WEIGHT”. PACMAN BELONGS ONLY TO WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION. AFTER WEIGH IN, AT TIME OF FIGHTNIGHT, 100% THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF WEIGHT. MARGARITO WILL WEIGH HEAVIER BECAUSE OF HIS SIZE AND HEIGHT. JUST USE OUR BRAIN THE SIZE AND HEIGHT OF PACMAN’S FRAME COMPARED TO MARGARITO. DO YOU MEAN THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME WEIGHT? HELL NO! AS USUAL, IN THIS RESPECT, PACMAN IS AGAIN AN UNDERDOG, BUT WINS IMPRESSIVELY BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST EXCITING FIGHTER IN THE WORLD CONFIRMED BY BOXING WRITERS AND MILLIONS OF BOXING FANS WORLDWIDE. AND THIS MAKES HIM PROMINENT AND FEARLESS IN BOXING FIGHTING BIGGER GUYS.
Its a shame the prople are caught up in PacmanMania. Martinez should have gotten the award
Juanma was a powerhouse in that fight, poor Bernabe, but hopefully Bernabe learns from it. Loved the pink gloves (for the susan b. foundation I think).
Margarito might do the same to Pac I’m afraid; but Pac of course is no n00b like Bernabe, we’ll just have to see.
11/6 Juanma vs Rafael Marquez on Showtime
The funny thing sanosuke, is that it would make exactly the same sense to award it to Lahr.
Lahr only writes in a news blog, and manny is only a paper chumpion.
Total sense…
That’s because you are clueless.
Dave Lahr! 2010 Sports Writer of the Year!
happy now Dave?
What about the guy who just dethroned the welterweight champion
Who did you expect to get Fighter Of The Year??? FLoyd Mayweather Jr. wouldn’t get it for BEATING UP A WOMAN.