Ring Magazine editor Nigel Collins is arriving tonight to personally strap the so-called Bible of Boxing?s world featherweight championship belt around Manny Pacquiao?s waist.
Collins is handcarrying the colorful belt?a throwback to the gartered, red-white-and blue version of the bareknuckle era.
I haven?t seen what Pacquiao?s belt looks like but I imagine it will be in the tradition of the Ring?s belts. I expect photographs of Pacquiao to flank a gold plate recognizing the Filipino as the world featherweight champion, a gold American eagle with its wings apart over two miniature US flags on top of the plate, a yellow trim lining both sides of the belt, a gold plate detailing his win over Marco Antonio Barrera and another gold plate noting his fight record.
