Pacquiao no longer wants to be called “Mexicutioner”

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao is tired of the nickname “Mexicutioner” that has been given to him by lovesick fans and he doesn’t want that moniker stuck on him. Pacquiao said to ****** “I do not like the nickname ‘Mexicutioner. I love the Mexican boxing fans and that name does not reflect my true feelings about Mexico and its people.” It sure took him a long time to set his fans straight about this, as it’s not a good nickname for a politician like Pacquiao to be having. The nickname was wrong from the very start, though, because Pacquiao was hardly someone that was beating one Mexican after another when you get right down to it. Pacquiao was beaten by a Mexican Erik Morales by a 12 round decision, and Pacquiao’s two fights with Juan Manuel Marquez, another Mexican, are fights that many boxing fans felt that Marquez won. And Pacquiao’s win over Marco Antonio Barrera came late in his career when Barrera had already deteriorated from his wars with Morales. And the win over Antonio Margarito came after Margarito was already beaten by Shane Mosley and a long layoff. Margarito wasn’t the same fighter he was in 2008 when he got around to fighting Pacquiao – at a catchweight – in 2011. As far as Pacquiao’s other wins over Mexican fighters, they weren’t huge talents and were guys that a lot of fighters could beat. It wasn’t a big deal that Pacquiao could beat them. So what we have here is Pacquiao getting beaten by Morales and Marquez. That tells me that Pacquiao never deserved the Mexicutioner nickname to begin with. He’s more of a victim against good Mexican fighters than any kind of Mexicutioner in my view.