By Chris Williams: As I read some of the comments from Manny Pacquiao’s fans on this blog, I noticed that quite a lot of them seem to be coming from people that won’t stop droning on incessantly about Floyd Mayweather’s video that he put out the other day. Look, Mayweather made a mistake; he apologized and explained his situation. It’s time for Pacquiao’s fans to practice some forgiveness. This is the healthy thing to do. Mayweather admitted he was wrong and he apologized. What more does he have to do?
When someone admits wrong, you don’t just keep driving it into the ground without stop. You can do that but then you end up losing out. You got to let go of that bitterness and forgive the guy. Mayweather made mistake and he’s been dumped on enough for it. But to go on and on, it just seems like it’s not healthy. Where’s the forgiveness? Let the man have a second chance. I can understand someone holding a grudge if there was no apology given and if this is something that happened over and over again.
But this was the first time for Mayweather to do this, and he did apologize. Let it go already. If Pacquiao is willing to give Margarito a second chance, then how come Mayweather doesn’t deserve the same thing. I think it’s best to try and put yourself in Mayweather’s shoes. If you screwed up like that would you want people to keep yapping about it 24/7, without ever shutting their traps?
Boxing fans need the Mayweather-Pacquiao, whether people realize that or not. This is a fight that will help the sport, help Pacquiao and help raise the legacy of Pacquaio. Goodness knows, if his career where to end right here, I don’t see how it would be complete. Pacquiao has fought four vulnerable fighters in his last four fights with an old Oscar De La Hoya, who looked to be totally shot, Ricky Hatton, who had been destroyed already by Mayweather, Miguel Cotto, also destroyed by Margarito and then Joshua Clottey, who just seemed happy to be there and have the opportunity to fight Pacquiao.
Now, Pacquiao is about to fight Margarito, who was beaten to a pulp only last year by 38-year-old Shane Mosley. Why fight Margarito? At any rate, Pacquiao’s legacy would be greatly elevated if were to fight and beat Mayweather. Without that win, I don’t know that it looks all that great. He’s won a lot of titles but he hasn’t won them against the best champions every time out and those catch weight bouts. Oh man, Pacquiao really needs the Mayweather fight as far as I’m concerned.
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