Manny Pacquiao is a fighter. He is ferocious and tenacious in the boxing ring, he throws thousands of punches all with bad intentions, but he seems to have gotten soft lately.
No longer is he the hungry and ferocious fighter from the mean streets who wouldn’t stop punching until his opponent was out cold or on the canvas no matter how much he hurt them, the Pacquiao you see today is a more civilized one in fact he is a politician now.
Maybe Manny has grown accustom to the finer things in life and doesn’t have the hunger he once had as a poor Filipino teen.
For those of us who witnessed the Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito fight on November 13 in Dallas Cowboy stadium what we saw was a man who showed pity and was merciful to his already beaten down opponent. Pacquiao carried the fight and kept looking at the referee to stop the fight. That type of compassion and pity Manny showed in the ring was not a good move by him.
The reason it isn’t good to ease up on an opponent like Margarito is because a bigger man will always have that punchers chance especially if he is a warrior who will die in the ring like Margarito. If a fighter doesn’t want to quit that is up to his corner, doctor or referee to stop the fight, the opponent is not the one to make that call.
Freddie Roach keeps telling Manny that he can’t be Mr. Nice Guy with his opponent and it’s his duty to put them out once the opponent is wounded. Roach knows that a fighter is dangerous up to the last round as long as he can still walk and throw punches.
I worry that Manny might show pity on Shane Mosley and could pay the price against a crafty, sneaky veteran like Mosley. Shane Mosley is almost 40 years old but he is still dangerous, actually, he is more dangerous than Andre Berto and Juan Manuel Marquez because Shane has nothing to lose and he is out to prove everyone wrong, that is the most dangerous type of opponent — the one that is counted out.
If Pacquiao shows mercy on Mosley and tries to carry him because he doesn’t want to knock him out cold, he might get caught off guard by Shane. Mosley will not show the same type of pity, he will take advantage of that gracious gesture and go in to take Manny’s head off with a sneaky power punch the same way he knocked Ricardo Mayorga out in the final part of the 12th and last round of their fight.
For Manny he must remember it is not his job to show pity in the ring, he is there to win and at all costs possible. If he doesn’t want to inflict lasting damage on Mosley then the moment he hurts him he must blast him out and not back away and show pity like he did against Margarito. Manny must not stop until Mosley is on the floor or the fight gets stopped by the corner or referee, because I guarantee Mosley will not show pity on the Pac-Man if he had him hurt.
Mosley wanted to kill Antonio Margarito when they fought he never showed an ounce of mercy on a already wounded Margarito. Mosley knows only to be a nice guy outside the ring but merciless inside the boxing ring. If you look at the two fights and compare Shane Mosley vs. Margarito and Pacquiao vs. Margarito you can see the difference. Mosley was throwing everything with bad intentions to really inflict brutal damage on a wounded Margarito not showing any pity, but Pacquiao would hurt Margarito a lot in the fight and then he would back away instead of capitalizing on it.
My advice to Manny Pacquiao would be: Keep the politics outside of the ring and fight to the finish inside the ring because Shane Mosley isn’t someone you can take lightly or show mercy on in the ring.
-bayanihantayo
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