Boxing Examiner | Michael Marley
ARLINGTON, TEXAS—Election Day in Sarangani Province doesn't arrive until May 10 with the campaigning kicking off on March 26.
Me, if I can only qualify somehow with Comelec standards and regulations, I will be casting my Filipino presidential ballot for rags to riches business mogul Manny Villar. In fact, I've been wearing my orange colored “Tropang Villar” wristband now for two weeks already.
Vote, the White Gorilla's endorsed ticket all the way....let's send Villar to Malacanang and send Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao to a Congressional seat...and don't forget Pacman lawyer Franklin “Jeng” Gacal for Congress from General Santos City...I wonder what Pacquiao opponent Roy Chiongbian will do when Manny claps his head with the Three Stooges Double Punch Earmuffs technique which was on display here in Texas...
I am also voting for....
L'il Floyd Mayweather to confess now to the world that he cannot beat Pacquiao in the ring, at the box office or in terms of worldwide commercial success. Yes, he's fun devil we know, yes his superb skills are exquisite if boring but the vast majority of all fans prefer to see persistent punching and raw guts on display as opposed to, let's say, those continuous shoulder rolls. You Mayweather fans please let me know when he draws 20,000, let alone 50,000 plus, to a big stadium or ballpark. I won't hold my breath...
Pacquiao, now truly, a “Fighter for the Ages” in the superstar clouds alongside such other always value for money greats as Julio Cesar Chavez and Roberto Duran. He may only be a master sergeant in terms of his military rank back home but Manny is the world's best ring general, the best of his generation, and better than Floyd Mayweather because he puts on a much better show with better artillery...
For amiable and effusive Cowboys Stadium landlord Jerry Jones who told me on Saturday night, after 51,000 turned out in his football playpen to watch the Magic of Manny and the Shrinking Violet performance of gunshy Joshua Cklottey, that he is hungry now to bring Mayweather-Pacquiao to this sprawling Metroplex of Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington. Jones is able to communicate with the moody Mayweather through Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Jones is a persistent guy who refuses to take no for an answer. Jones said he thinks Floyd versus Manny could top his recent NBA All Star Game attendance here and that crowd figure was 108,000...
For the real disgust of the Clottey camp for his play it safe, cover up defense and refusal to try to score the huge upset. That Girl Scouts, I'm happy to be here Wednesday prefight presser did, as I wrote in a scathing manner with a Madam Auring air of authority, foreshadow the pacifistic performance, After the bout, Pac went off to his concert to sing “La Bamba.” Clottey should have gone to sing “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” or “It Takes Two To Tango.” He got paid $1.2 million here in place of a $35,000 effort against some nonentity. Trainer Lenny DeJesus was frank enough to admit his man won ZERO rounds although I awared him round three as did two of three judges...
For Pinoy crooner Arnel Pineda, for rendering the Filipino national anthem, in a brilliant way. This cat put his heart and soul into his heart and soul...
For the fight plan of Coach Freddie Roach in its simple strategy, knowing Clottey would employ his using my gloves as my protective headgear defense. Roach had Megamanny banging away repeatedly at Clottey's stomach. It was the kind of Mike “Bodysnatcher” McCallum or Chavez body pounding which the victim doesn't really feel the excruciating pain of until a day or two after the punishment is dished out...Clottey's peformance may have been the biggest "Cover Up" since Tricky Dick Nixon and the Watergate scandal...
For the funny guy who shouted out “Viagra” when someone asked Clottey “how he stayed erect” at the postfight press conference. OK, I will confess, the wisenheimer was me...
For big fight away from our Mothership, from the slot machines and 21 tables of Las Vegas. Boxing goes back to its homebase for Mosley-Mayweather on May 1 but it's refreshing to come to a receptive area such as Dallas or to Yankee Stadium on June 5 for the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto title bout...
For Pacquiao's pride tempered by humility and for he embraces and is, in return, embraced by fans of all races, creeds and colors. Many high athletes push the public away but Megamanny pulls them towards himself...
For Clottey not running for any office as I don't think he could be elected as Dogcatcher in Ghana today. He could, like some politicans in the past, promise “a chicken in every pot” but the chicken would have his face. Most fighters come for victory, Clottey is content with survival...
See you all in Saragani where I will be landing soon. Prepare the balut and the beer...let's toast the world's best fighter and pray that he never turns into just another “trapo.”...
Finally, I hear Mayweather frequents a popular sushi joint in hometown Vegas. He always orders the same dish...
You got it, the shoulder rolls...
Source: Examiner.com
