SO HAS it come down to Floyd Mayweather Jr. firing racial slurs to get Manny Pacquiao all riled up?
Mayweather must be really bored, sick and tired dealing with questions about fighting Pacquiao that he needs to rattle off a list of weird things he wants to do against the Pacman.
In a recent Web video, Mayweather took potshots at the Filipino pound-for-pound king, maligning Pacquiao’s ethnic roots and cultural background.
He is said to have apologized for the comments, but like most things you want to take back, they’re already out in the open and damage has been done.
He must be expecting that Pacquiao, like most of his opponents, will answer back with shots of his own.
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Mayweather needs a straight man to talk back to him to rev up his own motor so that a fight can happen. Like someone looking for a tennis workout, he needs someone to hit the ball back to him.
It just won’t happen.
Pacquiao has just too much class to respond to Mayweather’s baits. It isn’t a problem of language at all.
Mind you, Pacquiao’s English has improved tremendously since he first went to the United States almost a decade ago. If he wanted to, he could say what he wanted about Mayweather in English.
The Filipino is probably the most flexible language learner in the world and can adopt a foreign tongue and survive in almost any country.
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Mayweather won’t find a willing partner to the dance he is proposing. The better thing he should do is fight Pacquiao inside the ring and not outside of it.
Each time he takes a shot at Pacquiao when a camera or microphone is in front of him, he’s revealing how much he wishes Pacquiao were not around during his time.
Well, here’s a reality check. Pacquiao is part of his milieu and it will be his loss if he doesn’t end the speculation that Pacquiao is the better fighter.
He can attack Pacquiao with a bag full of slurs or accusations about performance-enhancing drugs but he won’t be able to erase the Pacman from this page of boxing.
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Pacquiao can live with his accomplishments without Mayweather.
As fight fans, we’ll be disappointed without the two actually trading shots in the ring. But we’ll survive.
Pacquiao is doing the right thing by not answering back. He’s too much of a gentleman to respond.
He’s telling Mayweather: Sa ring tayo maglaban. Huwag kang dada nang dada (Let’s meet in the ring. Stop talking).
Mayweather must be really bored, sick and tired dealing with questions about fighting Pacquiao that he needs to rattle off a list of weird things he wants to do against the Pacman.
In a recent Web video, Mayweather took potshots at the Filipino pound-for-pound king, maligning Pacquiao’s ethnic roots and cultural background.
He is said to have apologized for the comments, but like most things you want to take back, they’re already out in the open and damage has been done.
He must be expecting that Pacquiao, like most of his opponents, will answer back with shots of his own.
* * *
Mayweather needs a straight man to talk back to him to rev up his own motor so that a fight can happen. Like someone looking for a tennis workout, he needs someone to hit the ball back to him.
It just won’t happen.
Pacquiao has just too much class to respond to Mayweather’s baits. It isn’t a problem of language at all.
Mind you, Pacquiao’s English has improved tremendously since he first went to the United States almost a decade ago. If he wanted to, he could say what he wanted about Mayweather in English.
The Filipino is probably the most flexible language learner in the world and can adopt a foreign tongue and survive in almost any country.
* * *
Mayweather won’t find a willing partner to the dance he is proposing. The better thing he should do is fight Pacquiao inside the ring and not outside of it.
Each time he takes a shot at Pacquiao when a camera or microphone is in front of him, he’s revealing how much he wishes Pacquiao were not around during his time.
Well, here’s a reality check. Pacquiao is part of his milieu and it will be his loss if he doesn’t end the speculation that Pacquiao is the better fighter.
He can attack Pacquiao with a bag full of slurs or accusations about performance-enhancing drugs but he won’t be able to erase the Pacman from this page of boxing.
* * *
Pacquiao can live with his accomplishments without Mayweather.
As fight fans, we’ll be disappointed without the two actually trading shots in the ring. But we’ll survive.
Pacquiao is doing the right thing by not answering back. He’s too much of a gentleman to respond.
He’s telling Mayweather: Sa ring tayo maglaban. Huwag kang dada nang dada (Let’s meet in the ring. Stop talking).
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