He bought land and built 1, homes, then gave them away. I told them the house was theirs, that they owed no money. They cried and then I cried. Now, this magnanimity has taken on a much bigger challenge, one with international implications. Pacquiao is one of a handful of people expected to run in the May election.
Polls currently have his prospects of winning rated near the middle or below. The current president, Rodrigo Duterte, whose term will expire, is from the same political party as Pacquiao and has been a longtime ally. Nepotism in politics? Who knew? Pacquiao has tried to be careful not to point the finger directly at Duterte.
For his part, Duterte is not being the least bit careful about ripping Pacquiao. Pacquiao is a boxing senator in a bulletproof vest. He carries on, the ever-present little grin on his face. In the Philippines, they speculate that Pacquiao is fighting again to boost his presidential campaign, both for financial and image reasons.
When he stunned the boxing world two years ago by beating the bigger, stronger, younger Thurman, his political stature rose.
Beating Spence would have invoked a similar reaction. Beating Ugas, not so much. They just wonder how much boxing damage one of their political leaders should risk.
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High School Sports. It could also, he said, have something to do with the appeal of sports, forcing our brains to separate Pacquiao as a politician and Pacquiao as a world-class athlete. His achievement in sports may unite, inspire and motivate people, but his politics is a different story.
Pineda adds that the concept of hero worship is also at play. So what should we do the next time we find ourselves cursing Pacquiao when he says something homophobic, but jumping for joy when he wins another world title belt? The presumption of innocence, is the principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty. With the rather impressive success of Manny Pacquiao's victories as he began to move up in weight class and dominate larger opponents, many became fans while others became suspicious.
Initially some were rather vocal on their opinions on whether Manny Pacquiao was on some illegal performance-enhancing drugs but as soon as he filed a defamation lawsuit, most of those accusing him began to change their words around and became really careful.
According to Las Vegas Sun Fighting. On the other hand, Floyd Mayweather and his father's portion of the lawsuit seems to have progressed forward. Mayweather has since been careful in offering his opinion on whether he feels Manny is on steroids.
He said back in June in the Associated Press. Everyone is cheating. And I never once said Manny Pacquiao was cheating, only thing I said was this: Me and any other opponent I face must take the test. Whether the defamation lawsuit results in a victory in favor of Manny Pacquiao or not, the damage has already been done. Many fight fans and the media feel the only way for Manny to prove that he is indeed fully clean is to abide by Mayweather's more thorough demands of random blood and urine drug testing in which he makes it a now prerequisite for all of his opponents ever since the Shane Mosley fight.
For the record, Manny Pacquiao has never tested positive for the use of any illegal performance enhancing drugs throughout his entire career. Should Manny have given in to Floyd's demands for more thorough random drug testing from the start? Many critics or, in the case of this writing assignment, haters point out that when Pacquiao went up in weight class, he utilized contracted weight limits on the maximum weight that he and his opponents could weigh on the weigh in before the fight.
Many of his critics felt Manny should have fought to win these world title weight classes without the catchweights. On the other hand, Manny also met half way with his long time ring rival Juan Manuel Marquez at a catchweight that was more suitable for the smaller Marquez at lbs for his lbs WBO title last November.
It is not that uncommon for catchweights to take place in boxing. Throughout history, many fighters utilized catchweights. It usually happens when a smaller big name fighter moves up in weight to take on the larger man one or two divisions above him. Even rapper Royce Da 5'9 raps about Pacquiao and the use of catchweights in his hit song Lighters.
Via Twitter Royce Da 5'9 responded to me stating that the verse about Pacquiao and catchweights was not necessarily intended to be a diss at all. Many of Manny's haters often complain that Manny Pacquiao should finally once and for all step up and be his own man and either dictate to his legendary promoter Bob Arum what he wants to do exactly, as in fight Floyd Mayweather next once and for all. They feel for the most part that Bob Arum is a greedy, selfish promoter who would rather maximize his own profits then to allow Pacquiao to take on the high-risk fight with Mayweather.
Arum has done some great things for his past fighters that include Ali, De La Hoya, and yes Mayweather. But what De La Hoya and Mayweather did was once they reached a certain amount success, they decided to move on and take more control over their own promoting.
Throughout the past few years, nobody has been under more scrutiny than Floyd Mayweather when it comes to hand-picking opponents. The majority of his victories come from fighting slower and less talented brawlers than himself. He avoided the biggest pay day of his life for a fight with Joshua Clottey? Come on man! Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox!
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