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Woe Awaits Pacquiao's Foe By Hermie Rivera PhilBoxing.com Sat, 02 Jun 2007  The world’s best fighter is enroute to New York city to receive from America’s boxing writers, a distinction no other Filipino ringster has ever achieved -— Fighter of the Year honors. Manny Pacquiao is being feted by the Boxing Writers Association of America for outstanding ring achievements in its 82nd accolade since it started giving the prestigeful award. The gala event is set for June 8 at New York's Copacabana, a fitting tribute to a deserving Dad who’ll be with his two sons Emmanuel & Mike and their lovely Mom Jinkee when he recieves the honor from Joe Calzaghe, today's longest reigning world boxing champion. This, by the way, is happening after finding himself beaten by a lady rival for a congressional seat in his home district of Cotabato, Southern Philippines. When the country’s boxing icon found himself in an odd terrain, battling a two- termer re-electionist backed by a well-oiled machinery, he must have wondered why he had chosen to become a participatory bet in a zone that’s just torrid for his liking. A risky move that caused him to lose some of his boxing constituents. Not to worry. Pacquiao is likely to woo them back once he starts beating the dickens out of those wanting to test his moxie again. No signs of ill-effects in his maiden try at politics contrary to claims by his maudlin critics. The GenSan boxing marvel showed no signs of regret once it was established he was trounced in a zone foreign to his calling. Indeed, Manny didn’t suffer what his career-faultfinders call 'a fever of despair' brought about by such an unexpected loss. Admittedly, it was a costly blunder after submitting himself to the dictates of an arena fraught with trickery and deceit. Now our idol is itching to return to his favored stage -- the roped square where he excels -- battling the world’s true fighters (trike-driver beaters—unwelcomed). Nothing but pure woe to the guy he’ll take on right after that caper where he dropped a bundle. And we’ve got a lot of names to go by. First, there’s Marco Antonio Barrera who’s been begging for a rematch since his 11th round destruction by the Pacman at San Antonio’s Alamodome. Manny wants the heavy-fisted Marco as the favored candidate in his list of September probables. Asked why, the Pacman quoted an idol: “When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.” Then, there’s the new World Boxing Council super-featherweight boss, Juan Manuel Marquez who’s been aching to have another go with our hitman since that controversial draw in 2004. I’m still trying to figure out how Marquez stole the crown from Barrera in that March hold-up at the MGM Grand (Shades of Floyd Mayweather Jr). Plus, a slew of other contenders itching to have a slice at Pacquiao's treasure sack; to include the unbeaten Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic, Mexican Humberto Soto who is scheduled to fight Manny’s kid brother Bobby at the Madison Square Garden and the killer of tuktuk drivers -- Venezuela’s undefeated knockout artist Edwin Valero -- who has iced all of his rivals in the featherweight division, or so his backers claim. Impressive? Yeah, but other notables tried against our smart punching terror only to wind up deserting Manny’s weight class so as to escape the killer blows of arguably the hardest hitting ex-politico. Porbida! Click here to view a list of other articles written by Hermie Rivera.  |
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