By Darnell Brown Jr: As much as we respect WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KO’s) for his pure will to fight, the fans of the sport have grown tired of the rematches that we have been fed recently. Let’s just face it; if Manny remains with his current promoters at Top Rank there’s a chance that’s what we’ll be getting for the remainder of his career. In my view, they just don’t have the talent at welterweight or light welterweight to sustain a leg in the class to enable Pacquiao to have interesting fights for what’s left of his career.
If Pacquiao chooses not to leave Top Rank at the end of the year, he will likely be stuck in a nonstop cycle of rematches and we the fans will be stuck watching them. To be sure, there was clearly a valid reason to have a rematches like Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley 2 or even Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Pacquiao 4, but even that was pushing it.