LAS VEGAS–My instant impressions after Magnificent Manny?s awesome performance on the biggest stage he?s ever had?
I guess Coach Freddie Roach?s ?Oscar can?t pull the trigger? theory was a helluva lot more than a publicity gimmick, huh? The washed up, washed out part-time fighter could not put a single effective combination together through eight rounds?
I don?t want it to escape anyone?s attention that Boxing Bookie John Chavez boldly predicted Pacquiao to win by knockout on Boxingconfidential?
You want to see another mismatch like this one? Then thrust Ricky Hatton into the ring with Megamanny because the British fighter could not hit Manny in the ass with a bag of rice?.
I’m sure that Coach Roach will have a ball kicking sand in Floyd Mayweather Senior’s face when Pacman tangles with the Mancunian idol…
No one should blame Nacho Beristain, a proven to be great trainer, for Oscar’s dismal showing. Between Manny’s fistic brilliance and Father Time working against Oskie, there is no strategy that the Nacho Man could have devised to thwart destiny…
I’m not certain right now whether Oscar just quit on his stool or he waited for his corner to co-sign his woof-woof exit but I suppose it really doesn’t matter. Oscar certainly did not bite down and take his beating like Roy Jones did from start to finish…
Epitaph for Oscar’s career: too much Hollywood, not enough gymnasium…
The really big fight now is Mayweather?s return to face the Pinoy Idol. Trust me, it will happen?
Pacman?s slingshots were almost always on target but who would have thought Goliath would be retreating and crouching in corners? Oscar fought like big bullies do when the little guy fights back?
He will go into retirement with six career losses but, for Oscar who arrogantly viewed Pacman as merely a pesky pipsqueak, this has to the most stinging defeat, one which will leave psychic bruises for many years to come?
The crowd at the MGM seemed to favor our humble hero from Gensan by a 80-20 majority at the start and, as the rounds flew by and Manny kept dominating, it became a popular landslide for the humble hero over the often snarky and arrogant Golden Guy?
Putting aside the fishnet photos and a few other examples of bad behavior, De La Hoya has given plenty of class to his chosen sport/business. I?ve often called him the President of boxing and I always meant that in a complimentary fashion. But, on this nippy Vegas night before Christmas, Manny was Obama while De La Hoya was an old pain like John McCain. Pacman offers the boxing world change we can believe in?
Remember when it was said that Golden Boy would drive a stake through Top Rank?s heart and put Bob Arum?s company out of business? I think GBP just got an involuntary enema with this devastating defeat and unplanned end to the Golden Boy?s part-time ring career. There are good people working at Oscar?s company and GBP is developing some fine looking prospects but, other than going on age 44 Bernard Hopkins, the superstar cupboard is now pretty bare. Surely the arrogance level of some of the Goldens will drop a few thousand notches?
You know, of course, if Pacman had dumped Top Rank in favor of Oscar and company, this fight never would have happened. ..
Manny Pacquiao, still #1 Pound for Pound, and a welterweight champion of the world. Sweet words to the loyalists in the Philippines and the millions of OFW?s all around the world?
Why do I think they are going to party tonight in GenSan and all across Pacland? I don?t think the office productivity level is going to be high in Metro Manila and other big cities this Monday, do you?
They always think it will never happen to them but it does. Cinderfella Oscar turned into a pumpkin just like Roy Jones did against Joe Calzaghe and like Sugar Ray Leonard did that night in New York when he brutalized by a young Terrible Terry Norris?
People need to get off Ricardo Lois; back for his ?dance like a crackhead? comments. It is Lois? role here at BC to stimulate discussion, debate and controversy. Think how boring life and this site would be without the bomb-tossing of Chavez and his partner in grime, the Hawaiian Gardens Hothead, Lois?
More, much more on Magnificent Manny to follow?
