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JUDGING A SHOW LIKE ?PACQUIAO-ALGIERI? By Reni M. Valenzuela PhilBoxing.com Fri, 21 Nov 2014  When has the minority become the majority? If not the PPV (pay-per-view) numbers that will be generated by the ?Pacquiao-Algieri? show, what better gauge do we have to determine the approval or disapproval of the fans, when everything and everyone else can be manipulated? Where is reason and justice (or democracy) if the enlightened people?s voice is not heard? How will you think correctly if the hype, blitz and craze of the situation seem to rule the day and beat solitude, or soundness of mind? And what is not gone if you see nothing but dimness? Perspective is lost where man is held captive by his baser instinct. Be not carried away by the sight and sound of wild festivities at the foot of Sinai. Refuse to be subjected to the lure of ?well-meaning? agents lest you unknowingly undress the modern Adam, to your utter shame and remorse. Stay awake and be composed. And so redeem yourself and boxing. Contradiction comes easy to the confused. And boxing is full of it. ?I do have one specific goal and that is to give the boxing fans the fight (Mayweather vs. Pacquiao) they have always asked for,? Pacquiao assures a week ago. Yet beneath such flattering declaration, he surrenders himself subservient to the very people who are among the biggest obstacles to The Fight. Pacquiao declaims a rhetoric, ?It is impossible to negotiate when you are the only one sitting at the table,? yet the table where he is seated is owned by Arum and Koncz. The Filipino icon says he believes ?good faith negotiations? could produce the Mega Bout, yet his handlers seem to have only their own pockets to think of? Bob ?Astute? Arum forever swears to make the Super Fight between Manny ?Pacman? Pacquiao and Floyd ?Money? Mayweather, yet Bob always cooks a different bout every time there?s an opportunity, as though the Super Fight is leprous or a carrier of Ebola virus. The Mayweather vs. Pacquiao isn?t everything, yet it may mean healing to all of boxing. The sport is deeply into paradox. Floyd says he?s the best, yet he fears his fellow best. He presents himself to the public like he breathes and wakes up for money, yet he dodges the fight that would bring him the biggest money, not realizing until now that the same fight would paint him the biggest coward if he continues running from it. Further, Pacquiao explains in the same speech: ?As I have said before, boxing is my passion and public service is my calling,? yet he sidetracks himself from his passion by being into a ?calling? he is not called to do. What Pacquiao has in politics is ambition, not calling. And it can be judged by his performance and attitude, and by being consistently included in the top of the list of the leading absentees in Congress as Representative of his native Sarangani from the time he was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2013. A true friend is one who lets you see what is ahead of blind curves in a zigzag road. Politics is indeed public service wherein ?politicians? have no place. I mean those whose focus are eternally occupied and pre-occupied in just wanting to get elected and re-elected even right after having just got elected. May it not be said, as in politics, that boxing is ill and boxing loves being ill. The healthy and principled are strong to go against wrong and will stand by their conviction. Only the drooped, crooks and those obsessed with Mayweather and Pacquiao, regardless of sanity or insanity, will abide by their confusion and self-condemnation. Watch the Pacquiao-Algieri or love yourself. It can?t be both. Be ?ironic.? renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com Click here to view a list of other articles written by Reni M. Valenzuela.  |
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