My oh my what difference a month make, many of fighters work hard to get their names to the top of the boxing upper echelon. They even hire people to help them build their public perceptional image. A month ago if you would have told me the public would start to turn against Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan I wouldn’t have believed you.
Amir khan was given terrible advice, he lost a close fight to Lamont Peterson in December, and the world was a buzz about the fight being a great clash. Instead Khan cries foul, which was ok we have heard it all before. they blame the referee, and a guy outside the ring but here we are 5 weeks in, you don’t keep harping over the fight. Just fight again Khan. Many of Khan fans who believed he won the fight, has since turned sour over the way this outcome has been handled by him and his promotional team.
Pacquiao is on a whole different boat, because he is one half of the biggest fight in boxing history. You don’t want to be the guy to whole that fight up. Floyd Mayweather has stated that he would fight May 5 against Pacquiao very adamantly. Since this is a fight the whole world is waiting for, once excuse after excuse was made for the fight not happening was made, Mayweather bluntness was enough to make the people look hard at Top Rank President Bob Arum as the main reason this fight was being shelved again.
The Pinoy boxing fans pleaded for Pacquiao to stand up to Arum and make this fight happen, but to no avail. Rumors come forth of a rematch with Miguel Cotto on June 9th, have the Pacquiao fans begging for him not to take that fight. What I can’t understand myself is, if Pacquiao is the ‘People’s Champion’ why he is not giving the people the fight they want?
