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Graceful Exit for this Hogwash Rubber Match PhilBoxing.com Sat, 11 Feb 2006 Legally, the team of Manny Pacquiao can dishonor their contract with the Erik Morales camp on the stipulation that in case the latter would lose on their January 2006 rematch Morales could invoke the rematch clause. Pacquiao can breach this contract because Morales was asking to slug it out at 132 lbs instead of the 130 lbs meeting of minds. Or was it a dare on the Hispanic-Aztec gladiator part who knows that the Filipino southpaw will not buy it thus a safe exit for him to hang his gloves for good? Pacman was a Super Bantamweight fighter (122 lbs) who just wrecked havoc and broke hearts in the Super Featherweight Division (up to 130 lbs). He was only able to make it at 127 ? lbs at the scale the day he faced El Terrible. But with the 132 lbs crap the Mexican hisses, Pacquiao would look like The Penguin in one of the Batman Movies. While Morales will be the Joker, because he will be the biggest joke in contemporary boxing history as he summersault every time he will be hit! Man, me myself a big Morales fan lost thousands of pesos in bet, and suffered a deluged of hate emails from my countrymen who thought I committed treason, concedes now the dude was over the hill. I thought then his Raheem campaign was just on style where the latter act like an Olympic sprinter. The poor boy even complained the physical strain was on the 135 lbs (Lightweight). After, the second fight with Pacman, he decried he was weakened with 130 lbs weight reduction! And then he is asking for a trilogy in 132 lbs. What is thissss? Plain and simple swindling. Or just one way of saying: Mi Ultimo Adios! Erik should remember what happened to former boxing great who persisted to box. An ill advised venture for Muhammad Ali to fight his former sparring partner and the guy with the greatest left jab Larry Holmes. Holmes refused to punish and instead beg Ali to stop the fight. Ali sensible corner pulled their fox – strutting ghost after the 10th round so he can lie on the stretcher bound for the hospital. We don’t know if Pacquaio will do a Larry Holmes in September. What I know as a Filipino, that ghost (we call it aswang) in the Philippines is chased and bludgeoned to death every time the hoi polloi caught him/her as told to me by my grandpa when I was a kid. We may not expect poor Erik lying on a stretcher bound for the hospital again but instead the late Erik (God forbid!) lying on the stretcher bound somewhere else. Again, the thin-padded Cleto-Reyes glove will be the culprit to do the mayhem. I was correct in my prediction the said glove was a veiled sledge-hammer, but my confidence pushed me to bet for the Gibraltar-chinned of El Terrible but to no avail, the chap was done. “Already Done” as belted by my favorite folk-rock guy Neil Young. As a businessman myself, financially this rubber match is a no-no for profit seeking boxing promoters except probably Bob Arum. Latest survey at SecondsOut.com has only 3% respondents indicating they want to see a Pacman – Morales III. 15% was keen for Zahir Raheem, 18% for rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez, and 64% wanted to see a return with Marco Antonio Barrera. Common sense dictates, more people will pay for Pacquaio’s re-assassination of the Baby-Faced Assassin Barrera. Furthermore, this trilogy heap is much worst than the Corrales-Castillo III that Bob Arum is presently promoting. My two cents worth of advice to the Pacquiao legal team: To hell with the Morales contract, just breach it! And call pronto Oscar dela Hoya of the Goldenboy production to produce his duck named Barrera for another hunting expedition for our boy Pacman. (Send reactions to: totomortz@yahoo.com. Or mobile phone # 09192760964) Click here for a complete listing of columns by this author. Click here for a complete listing of this author's articles from different news sources. |
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