?Do you know that Manny Pacquiao will be breaking a jinx?and therefore making history again?if he wins the WBC super welterweight title against Mexico?s Antonio Margarito on Nov. 13 at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium in Texas??
My boxing IQ was being tested by Teddy Reynoso, a rabid boxing fan and researcher who works for the LUWA. Of course I failed the test, just as three boxing authorities I consulted did when I asked them the same question later. Teddy?s research went so far back in time, nobody clearly remembers.
Neither were the boxing enthusiasts too interested whether or not the Pacman was breaking a jinx. To them, this achievement was a triviality.
To Teddy however, the discovery was big news. Immediately after our conversation, he e-mailed a three-page, single-spaced document containing the result of his extensive research.
I went through the manuscript and got even more confused. He wrote about Filipino boxers as far back as the 1930s who failed to win a title in the super welterweight, the junior middleweight and the light middleweight divisions.
The youngest boxing scribe I consulted explained that the weight limit of all three divisions is 154 lb, except that they go by different names, depending on the world boxing association organizing the fight.
He also said that the Philippines already had a world champion in that weight category: Ceferino ?Bolo? Garcia, circa 1939.
?Why don?t you just write about the fight last night between Brian Viloria and Sor Veerapol of Thailand, instead of ?The Jinx.? That would be more interesting,? the sc
