By Dave Lahr: As Ronnie Nathanielsz points out so astutely in his column at inquier.net, Manny Pacquiao didn’t look good in his sparring session last Saturday, describing it as such: “The fact is Pacquiao was sluggish when he sparred last Saturday going three rounds with ambitious, young and undefeated Glen Tapia.“
Nathanielsz feels this is something to be concerned with. I agree. This is bad. I think Pacquiao is beginning to show signs of age and the affects of him gaining more and more weight. This isn’t a training issue, but rather what happens when you start to get old and put on weight. The weight is by choice not by necessity.
Pacquiao is the one that’s seeking more and more glory, as he hungers for yet another world title, albeit against a non-junior middleweight in Antonio Margarito. As history has shown us with political figures that hungered too much glory, then often suffered huge defeats that ruined. Take a look at the little Napoleon Bonaparte. After a series of victories during the Napoleonic wars, Napoleon made the mistake of invading Russia in 1812, and got bogged down in the winter and suffered huge losses. If Napoleon had been just satisfied with the victories he had accomplished, things would have been fine. But he got greedy, and then got wiped out and eventually put in exile on Saint Helena.
Will this be Pacquiao’s same fate? Will his hunger for more paper titles cause him to take a beating by Margarito and sent finally to a bitter defeat? Oh, it would be so bad for Pacquiao to get flattened and whipped by Margarito. They would have to strip Pacquiao of his silly nickname of the “Mexican assassin,” and change it to something more fitting like “The little one that tried to bite off more than he could chew.” Nathanielsz says Pacquiao is sometimes so tired in the morning after his nightly basketball games that he doesn’t do his jobs.
Man, Pacquiao is slipping. The hunger doesn’t match the youth and the vitality anymore. I can see a Napoleon-like loss on the horizon. This is going to be tragic to watch. It’s going to be terrible to see Pacquiao getting whipped and sent to Helena, a fighter reduced to shreds. It doesn’t matter how much Alex Ariza tries to train him; When you get old and try for too much by taking on a brave Mexican warrior like Margarito, the little body can’t take it. I think Pacquiao is about to invade Russia and take a terrible defeat by the hounding Margarito troops.
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