After shift this morning, I went home to work on a few things, then I went back to the office to watch the Pay per View fight of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez - their fourth showdown.
Pacman promised that he would make the fight short, and in a way it was. Just not the outcome Manny and a lot of Filipinos expected. It was an outcome I expected a long time ago, but not the way that it happened. The way that it happened is a shock to the whole world.
Don't get me wrong, I so love Pacman and I still am so proud of everything that he has done, but after their second showdown with Marquez, I really thought that he should have retired already. His fights in the last 2 or 3 years have been boring. Yes, he won most of them by decision, and lost a couple including the latest and probably the most painful since he was unconscious on the canvass for a good number of minutes.
Juan Manuel Marquez is a fighter. Manny Pacquiao is a fighter, a public servant, a lay minister, an actor, a basketball player, a businessman, and what not.
I hope this fight will be a wake up call for Pacman to make him realize that the money he has earned is more than enough for his children's future. He now has to think of himself and his family. He has nothing more to prove in the sport of boxing. He is already in the record books, and his legacy has been cemented a long time ago. Yes, there are boxers who are still fighting despite their age, but they are people who doesn't have anything else to do, and don't have enough lief savings. Pacman can do more if he decides to hang his gloves for good.
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