Who Is Smarter: Mayweather or Pacquiao?
MARRIAGE WASN’T WORTH $100 MILLION, NEITHER IS FIGHT ANYMORE!
San Francisco, CA– My ex-wife, whom I will not name because I don’t want the wench getting any ink, was one of the best bull s*itters in the history of the planet. Forget about her philandering on both myself, and then the guy she was fooling around with when I dropped Divorce papers on her, this same guy that was stupid enough to marry her, only to catch her leaving a motel room with another guy, this personal history sort of reminds me of the craziest of the Manny Pacquiao fan base, that being they are disingenuous.
THE LADY JUDGE AS NAIVE AS THE PAC-FANATICS
When I tried explaining to the lesbian judge that handled our case that my ex, “Was pulling off the biggest con since Paul Newman & Robert Redford in the epic movie entitled, The Sting,” she scoffed at me. Now some 20 years later I am getting the same reaction from some insane Filipino fans of Manny Pacquiao. Now while I’ve been told by more Filipinos than not that Manny was clearly beaten, albeit close in their minds, by Juan Manuel Marquez, the Pacnuts, the group of Pacquiao fanatical fans that wouldn’t know how to spell boxing if Pacquiao wasn’t involved, they still stand by their beaten man, who was again beaten on HBO Saturday night when the network replayed the Marquez-Pacquiao fight that was officially won by Manny on scores of 116-112, 115-113, & 114-114, meaning a majority decision.
HAD A SIT DOWN WITH FILIPINO FRIENDS SATURDAY AFTERNOON
When sipping some coffee at Starbucks yesterday in Daly City, CA, which may as well be called the Filipino capital of America, three men and one woman flat out admitted that Pacquiao lost to Marquez. The one woman, she had the best line, “Well, isn’t boxing fixed anyway?” While the guys laughed as I mused over the fact that most of the Pac fanatics know little about the sport of pugilism, they talked of a nation starving for heros. “We don’t have the sports heroes you have here in America. Our government is corrupt,” said one man who continued. “But so is yours. But as far as the Pacquiao-Marquez fight, we know Manny didn’t win and any objective Filipino should know it too.”
SO I ASKED, “WHAT HAPPENED TO SUPER MANNY?”
To this interrogatory, I got four different responses. The female said it was “age.” Male #1 stated Manny had too much on his plate trying to be both a Congressman and championship boxer. Numero 3 said, “Boxing is about styles and Marquez has a style that Manny can’t handle.” The last response I got was spontaneous and brought a dead silence to the Starbucks table. “Maybe he isn’t taking any *hit anymore.” The *hit he was referring to was Manny’s alleged use of Performance Enhancing Drugs.
WHAT ABOUT MAYWEATHER & MANNY?
Giving the lady the first shot at this one, she thought that, “Manny might be able to beat Mayweather because Pacquiao is younger than Floyd.” All three males went the other way. “If Manny can’t beat an older and slower Marquez, he doesn’t beat Floyd Mayweather.” Having been bombarded by clueless Pacnuts since a same night Internet poll had Marquez winning 48%, Manny 33% and roughly 10% unsure whether or not Manny had won or not, they have come up with numbers, videos, which to any serious student of the game knows is like my ex-wife, “full of s*it!”
MANNY HAS TO BE JEALOUS OF FLOYD’S POSITIONING
Manny’s a Filipino Congressman, while most people think that Floyd Mayweather is a street urchin, when in actuality he is not. Born and raised in middle class surroundings in Grand Rapids, MI, Floyd although he is no Congressman seems much smarter than Manny Pacquiao. Floyd gives roughly 10% of his money to his team of advisors (2). He paid Victor Ortiz $3 million, say he spent another $5 million on training and miscellaneous. That’s about $18 million and seeing the Pay Per View receipts were in excess of $78 million, Floyd had about $60 million left before taxes which amounts to about $40-$45 million in his pocket, this when you include International TV rights and the like.
PACMAN MADE A REPORTED $22 MILLION FOR MARQUEZ
What nobody will tell me is the financial circumstances surrounding the $22 million that Pacquiao supposedly made last Saturday. Nobody is saying whether this is before or after promoter Bob Arum’s reported 35% cut and the 15% promoter Oscar De La Hoya is said to get from Pacquiao. Even if the $22 million is after Bob, Oscar, and the taxman took their cut, that’s still half of what Mayweather made against Ortiz. Which brings me to this question: So who is the smarter businessman here, the man with the Ghetto-like tongue Mayweather, or an elected Philippine Congressman who is slated to run for President of the Philippines?
Pedro Fernandez