Exactly a month from now, Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao will tread into a dangerous territory no other boxer before him has ever done. And perhaps, will ever do.
For the record, Pacquiao may be the only flyweight to progress into a full welterweight while fighting in a highly competitive quality of boxing in every weight division ? all eight of them ? where he, at one time or another, toiled.
Along the way, he captured six world titles and a lineal one to qualify him as the only seven-weight class champion in boxing.
With the World Boxing Council (WBC) sanctioning his fight against Mexico?s Antonio Margarito as a super welterweight championship, a win will elevate Pacquiao to an even rarified field that will take ages to match. It is a record that will unlikely be broken. After all, in almost two centuries of professional boxing, no other fighter has accomplished such feat.
In taking the fight with Margarito, Pacquiao will also become the first member of parliament/congress in any country to fight for a boxing championship. Again, that is a record very hard to duplicate.
But for all the record setting feats and accomplishments of Pacquiao, there lurk dangers in his November 13 title fight against the taller and bigger Mexican.
Pacquiao is not fighting a warm up fight in Margarito. On the contrary, it is another crossroad fight for him. Win and he conquers another milestone. With a victory, he will force the
