Pacquiao done with fighting?

Before you pass judgment on Manny Pacquiao, before you make a hasty conclusion that he has lost his marbles just because he claims that God has spoken to him in a dream urging him to retire soon, please listen to what I have to say.

Dreams often serve as a medium of communication between human beings and those who do not inhabit our dimension.

The dead, for example, communicate with the living through dreams, and even people who are alive communicate with each other on this level. Very often, enemies who do not consciously want to talk to each other, settle their differences while asleep. When they wake up, they wonder why they no longer feel animosity toward the person they are at odds with.

I’m sure you have experienced this.

Now when a person has reached the highest level of consciousness, as perhaps Manny has, he may be able to access messages, knowledge or inspiration from what we perceive to be a supreme being, or God as we know him, through dreams.

Most of the time, though, the signs or messages need to be interpreted because they are not literal.

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In Manny’s case, he announced that God appeared in his dream early this year and told him that he has done enough. “You have made yourself famous and this is harmful.”

It took sometime before Manny officially made the announcement to retire soon, but exactly when, perhaps that will come in another dream. And I’m not being irreverent. In the Old Testament, God spoke to Moses not only once but several times.

Those who heed God’s word commit almost no error in whatever they do. I believe Manny has made a covenant with God. He will give up all his vices, including his boxing career, which isn’t likely to last long anyway, for a successful and rewarding political career. His next target is to become governor of Saranggani.

Will he one day aspire to become President?

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Sammy Gello-Ani is sure about one thing regarding the Argentine pug who will come to Cebu in May.

“It’s definitely not Luis Lazarte,” said Sam when I asked for the name yesterday. “His presence here might cause another riot of even greater magnitude than that at the Mar de Plata. Mahirap na.”

The Argentine will fight in the undercard of Johnriel Casimero’s defense of his IBF light flyweight title at the Waterfront Hotel two months from now. After what happened to Casimero and company when he fought against Lazarte in Argentina recently, no one can tell for sure how Filipinos will react to the Argentine.

Former WBO super flyweight champ Marvin Sonsona, who TKO’d Carlos “El Flaco” Fulgencio last Saturday, will also see action in the Casimero title defense. If he wins, he would go into serious training under Sam Lewkowitch in California before he takes a crack at another world title.

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Ginebra cager John Wilson sobbed as he plodded toward the Kings dugout, making people within the vicinity stare and wonder.

“Why on earth would he be crying when his team won a beautiful, hard-fought game against Talk ‘N Text that night?” a scribe mulled.

But while I told him it could be tears of joy, I too wondered why.

I found out later that a bit of tongue-lashing from one of Ginebra’s assistant coaches had caused the cager’s tear ducts to activate.

“The assistant coach berated him for playing the role of a coach. He ‘coached’ teammate Rudy Hatfield toward the closing moments to take the shot. Rudy listened to him, took the shot and missed,” an insider revealed.

Good thing Ginebra managed to win the game.