By Babatis Banda: With a scintillating knock-out loss to Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao dug himself a deep, smelly dark hole that he will have to crawl out of, before he can stand and talk Floyd Mayweather again. In fact, the only hope or dreams any Pacquiao fan has about Pacquiao ever beating Mayweather rests purely on one day-dream hope, and that is Pacquiao landing something like Marquez did. The question is, would he?
Boxing being what it is, there is a remote chance he would land occasionally, but not enough to put Mayweather away. We all know, Mayweather is not careless, and he would never brawl with Pacquiao. His superiority does not lie in power and brawling, it lies in pure sublime craft. Mayweather would, whatever day of the week, hour of the day or night, plaster Pacquiao to submission and probably take him out too.
There are many reasons why Pacquiao and Mayweather never met inside of the ring, and this has been debated for the last three years or so. The sad part is that, because this fight never happened, the day-dreamers convinced themselves for the past three/four years that Pacquiao was Mayweather’ s equal. Initially, they only believed Pacquiao was the only one who could really give Mayweather real problems, and this belief grew with time and they believed Pacquiao had it to beat Mayweather and then, into what they believe today…..Pacquiao, irrespective of his dismal and pathetic showing, can still beat the P4P great.
Pacquiao’s loss to Tim Bradley and then, the knock-out that reverberated around the world. It left Pacquiao in stupor, and it brought worry to all that saw it, irrespective of who they supported. Pacquiao had just registered yet another milestone, the knock-out of the decade if not of the century.
Boxing is a combat sport and people get ‘tattooed’ to borrow the words of one of the HBO commentators. The problem is not that Pacquiao was tattooed, but it is how he was tattooed. Anybody who says that was a lucky punch is still in denial. It is time to wake up and face reality. The 3rd round knock-down had disaster written all over it and the 6th round knock-out iced the cake and put the argument to rest.
The beauty of it all is that, Mayweather let Pacquiao self-destruct without having to reward him or Arum of the unjustifiable 50-50 split, and the refusal to agree to what Mayweather was asking for in terms of random blood tests in 2010. Like they say, give somebody enough of the rope so they hung themselves. Pacquiao is clearly dangling from his own rope.
Comments are closed.