Manny Pacquiao - the Next Superstar?

[ProBox1]

You can call featherweight Manny Pacquiao a lot of things, from short (he stands just 5’6”) to skinny (he tops the scales at weigh-in at 125 lbs), but whatever you do, just don’t call him yellow.

If there’s just one thing that Pacquiao has proven since hitting the limelight in June 2001 and gathering the attention of boxing aficionados with a series of impressive victories, it’s that the Filipino firebomber comes to fight, and he fights as hard as he hits, as recent opponents (and Pound-for-Pound contenders) Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Márquez can attest to. [details]

[psychopath]

Great article. The author seems to have made some serious research about Pacquiao.

Just wanted to add up for the readers that his second loss . . . a defense against 3k Singurat in Thailand was already a lost battle before he even climb the ring. Due to his rapidly expanding and developing body at that time, Pacquiao was way above the max allowable weight for that Flyweight bout. He was stripped off the title before the fight for failling to meet the required weight and that he was forced to climb the ring despite the decision because refusing to do that will prevent him from collecting full his intented purse.

A full week of starvation and sweating routines trying to remove that extra weight dehydrated him and weakened his body, reason why he went down to the canvas with just one solid body blow and never atempted to rise up. For what? wIN or loose he was already stripped off his WBC Flyweight title.


That's why after that fight he went up 3 divisions above where he established his name again.

[JOM'S]

For an avid Pac Fan like myself its very interesting to read articles regarding manny and how other people see him...

props to you PSO junior for adding accurate additonal info on the 3K fight....

[psychopath]

For an avid Pac Fan like myself its very interesting to read articles regarding manny and how other people see him...

props to you PSO junior for adding accurate additonal info on the 3K fight....

No problem Bro. we share same interest so we will share goods points.

I agree with the author though, He is right. Manny despite his accomplishments is not a SUPERSTAR yet, his name can already be mentioned among the present greats but he still needs to cement it by fighting and defeating a couple of NAMED fighters . . . and this is exactly what Arum and his cohorts are trying to delay or prevent.

[Neuraxis]

The next big thing has become the next big bust.

[psychopath]

The next big thing has become the next big bust.

What's going on is just a temporary delay or set back . . . . sooner or later Morales, JMM and MAB will run out of space and excuses not to settle the score with Manny. Only then can people judge Manny if he is for real.

I just wanted all these fights to happen.

[abdiel2k3]

is manny the next big superstar?
ofcourse
will he be a dominant one, one that is unbeatable
doubtful
but he is already without question a superstar

[JOM'S]

is manny the next big superstar?
ofcourse
will he be a dominant one, one that is unbeatable
doubtful
but he is already without question a superstar

abdiel2k3 good and unbiased opinion, for me as an avid Pac Fan, I am hoping for him to be dominant, and for us Filipinos he was already a superstar 4 years back, but I also think he needs at least one more big fight to cement his worldwide superstar status....

[rsl]

abdiel2k3 good and unbiased opinion, for me as an avid Pac Fan, I am hoping for him to be dominant, and for us Filipinos he was already a superstar 4 years back, but I also think he needs at least one more big fight to cement his worldwide superstar status....

Your kidding right? Paquaio a superstar or the next big thing is a freakin' joke. The whole 126lbs. division is a joke, but competitive and it always will be when you are seeing the "best of the worse" it gives you an illusion that it's great fighters going up against great fighters. I never thought highly of Pacquaio not then and not now. I have seen Pacquaio fight several times before he even came to America and not much has changed although two things that really jump out about Pacquaio is his relentlesness, stamina and that left hand, but believe me when he loses again don't be surprise on how bad a beating he'll get or how quick the k.o. will be and it may not even be against JMM, MAB, or El Terrible.

[JOM'S]

RSL, I do understand if you don't believe that Pac is already a Superstar...

but what I don't understand, is how you can think that the featherweight division is a joke, my only guess is you don't know anything about boxing....