Tuesday, December 22, 2009


I can not remember the first boxing match that I saw on TV, but I remember exactly because most fights of Muhammad Ali, George Frazier, Joe Foreman, Leon Spinks inder heavyweight division, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard in the middleweight in the prime of their careers. I remember the feeling that one experiences when just a struggle, the excitement that courses through the body, the tension in the air, and the overwhelming joy when the fighters seem to lose you to root for a better deal than he beats his opponent with a "Lucky Punch" or if a boxer by winning a split decision. Those were the golden days of boxing.

Currently, however, the sport needs resucitation. The Prime Minister heavyweight division does not have a name of the institution to draw the masses in the way Mike Tyson in his prime may have. Oscar de la Hoya, whom he looks good by and good boxing skills enough to bring him an Olympic gold in his amateur years, the big drawer for the lighter weight division but he has also distracted by the glitter that goes with famous be. Enter packed a small fighter, the enormous power in both hands and amazing speed and comes from a country that produced world champion boxers in the lighter weights to be done, Manny Pacquiao.

He is a true rags to history and achieved its current success as the bankable boxers in the lighter weights at the time that inspired some of his countrymen to take boxing as a sport, in the hope that they will succeed Pacquiao as the means to leave her life of poverty. And all the budding boxer to fight for it, that would give them a big pay day have a dream Pacquiao's lined up at the door, hoping to get a chance. And after he had much longer against de la Hoya in their fight for a TKO in December last year, the line will be.

Two of the most spoken names are on the next line for a boxing match against Manny and the United Kingdom Ricky Hatton Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the United States, which was, until his retirement as the best boxer pound for pound are. Hatton has the inside track. But the champ seems to field against Mayweather, as well as Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach stated. Latest reports say boxing, that the fight against Hatton could be pushed by both parties do not appear on the purses of each of the struggle are in agreement. If you do not, and not Hatton Mayweather, who then?

Whoever ends up as Pacquiao opponent, I hope for the continued success of Manny's. If he goes to the ring, a country that has such a diverse culture and people in the Philippines to unite as suddenly and is only for a day forget their worries and problems as they fight their fellow countryman for glory of a nation to see.

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