Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?It wasn?t me,? said WBC champion David Diaz. ?The early headbutt was unintentional and the bleeding came from that. I think his vision was pretty obscured when I drilled him with that right uppercut in round 10. Down he went like a pile of bricks.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?Don?t look at me,? trainer Freddie Roach said. ?I saw Manny as being overconfident but with all those yes men that hang around him I could not get him to refocus on Diaz. I think it was a case of mental fatigue, all these high pressure bouts and a lapse in his mind. That opened the door for Diaz.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?I am not the one,? cocksure promoter Bob Arum bellowed. ?If I asked my staff once, I asked them 1,000 times are you sure this guy, David Diaz, is the right guy to step up to the lightweight division against. Look, Manny was ahead on points when David flattened him. Manny will be back, I just know it.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?Hey, I am just the guy who gets him to sign a lot of contracts,? lawyer Jeng Gacal said. ?I am not the Jackal or the Jackass who picked David Diaz as the so-called easy opponent. Not my department so they can?t pin this one on me.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?Never in my wildest dreams did I see this one coming,? Top Rank?s master matchmaker Bruce ?Southland? Trampler said. ?It?s a million to one shot something like Buster Douglas starching Tyson in Tokyo. If they fought nine more times, Manny would win all nine.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?It was not us,? his adoring Pinoy fans. ?OK, we put him on a pedestal and we held him under bright lights 24 hours a day and we got his picture placed on postage stamps. And we dissected his every movement, his every meal. We never let him breathe but who ever though he would end up choking like Kobe Bryant? We made him a national idol so don?t look at us. We can find another idol, you watch.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?It was karma, really,? Diaz handler Jim Strickland said. ?There was too much hubris on the Pacman side. Freddie Roach with all that knockout talk. You never heard Freddie roll like that before. They overdosed on overconfidence and Manny sucked it all up like the bees take honey.?
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?It wasn?t me,? said the priest. ?But it might have been Him, my bossman, the Guy Upstairs. Maybe He just wanted to remind Megamanny that he is not a living deity, that he is just a fallible human being like the rest of us. God delivers humility at the strangest times. Now, I don?t what He looks like for sure but there was a guy in the fifth row at ringside who seemed to have a heavenly glow about Him. Could it have been??
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
?No, I am not Him,? the man in the seersucker seat and the Panama hat who sat fifth row ringside said. ? just work for Him, it?s kind of like the play ?Damn Yankees.? You remember that one, when He turned the Washington Senators? Joe Hardy into a super ballplayer and the knocked off the perennial champion Yankees.
?You see, He decided that all this Megamanny, Pinoy idol stuff was overdone,? the man said. ?So He tapped David Diaz on the shoulder and turned him into Joe Hardy with boxing gloves instead of a bat and glove.?
So where is your Boss, I asked softly.
?Look up, you will see Him some night,? the man said. ?I?ve got to run, cash these bets and get back to His office. Hey, pal, you look sad.
?Here?s a little tip, my Boss has Manny crushing Diaz in November rematch. It won?t go three full rounds.?
Puff, puff, and off into the smokey night the mystery man went.
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
It was Him. It was a serving of humble pie, of Humility 101, a not so gentle reminder that we all fall, we all fail sometime.
Double down on the rematch?now, before the Word gets out.
Who knocked out Manny Pacquiao and why?
