Pacquiao defines greatness

[JoanRose Bacosa]

Pacquiao defines greatness
February 23, 12:04 AMMississippi Fight Sports Examiner
by Brad Cooney


What makes a fighter great? In fact, what makes a person great? A great fighter takes on the best, and defeats them. A great person puts others before themselves. A great person gives back to his community, to his country. A great person saves lives, he touches lives, and he makes the world a better place. Manny Pacquiao is a great person. Yes we all know how great of a fighter he is, but more importantly is how great his character is.

When Floyd Mayweather Jr and friends decided to accuse Manny of taking steroids, this was a direct attack at the man's character. This is why Manny did not hesitate to hire a top gun attorney in order to save his good standing with his fans and to the people. It's still amazing that someone would stoop to a level as to where they would attack the character of a great person. What has Pacquiao ever done to deserve such treatment? One of my favorite scriptures in the Bible says, "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"

A great person stay humble. A person who is envious and or jealous of another persons success resorts to hate in order to feel better. When a man works hard to stand at the top of the mountain, there are always those who are jealous that want to knock him down. Manny Pacquiao has been standing at the top of the mountain for awhile now,and as expected, there are those ready and willing to try and knock him off.

A great person stays humble. Manny Pacquiao does not speak badly about people. He keeps things positive, and he always puts God first. Most of us down here in Mississippi are Christians. Prayer and our faith in God is very important to us. This is something that Mississippi and Manny Pacquiao have in common. Pacquiao's faith is extremely important to him. He does not take his success for granted, he stays humble, and he always gives back.

Manny Pacquiao defines greatness. He is a great fighter, he's a great person, and he is a great role model. Boxing should be proud to have him.

[The_FLash]

I know its about being good and all... but thats kinda gay. Like a hippie hugging a tree.

[ModernTalking]

When you're destine to lose but you win, you're ATG. I had Pac losing to Barerra, Dela Hoya, Hatton, and Cotto. Pac didn't lose but blow them away by a country mile.

[jimmy webb]

When you're destine to lose but you win, you're ATG. I had Pac losing to Barerra, Dela Hoya, Hatton, and Cotto. Pac didn't lose but blow them away by a country mile.

LOL, shows how much you know about boxing !!

Out of your list, I picked PAC to lose to De La Joto and Barrera the first time. I also picked him to lose in the first fight against Erika, and I picked him to lose twice against Juanita.

[Bruce Banil]

When you're destine to lose but you win, you're ATG. I had Pac losing to Barerra, Dela Hoya, Hatton, and Cotto. Pac didn't lose but blow them away by a country mile.

yeah, right! the underdog rising to the occasion and beating all the odds.

he caught the imagination of majority of the boxing people...BWAA confirmed that.

i hope floyd gets the same accolade in 2019.

[$partacus]

These kind of articles are pathetic, they make Pacquiao sound like a role model catholic when he clearly is not.

[whirlwind]

These kind of articles are pathetic, they make Pacquiao sound like a role model catholic when he clearly is not.

Then we should replace him with Floyd Mayweather instead.

[nikeboix69]

Then we should replace him with Floyd Mayweather instead.

Ohh please no. Mayweather probably thinks humility is just a myth.

[soyotoyapex]

Larry Holmes, Heavyweight Champion:

I wish I could see Mayweather and Pacquiao fight, but what they're (Floyd's camp) doing right now is hurting boxing because people want to see the fight... They're trying to bring up stuff that is taking away from the fight with drug tests and accusations... I don't get it."


Joe Goosen, Legendary Boxing Trainer:

"I just think Pacquiao is a juggernaut right now... and I would just say that maybe that's the reason (Floyd's) throwing up all these smokescreens and roadblocks because he (Floyd) doesn't wanna get in the ring with him (Pac)... (Floyd) should just say yes to the fight, forget all the testing, this guy's (Pac) not on drugs. There's a little air there in all this that's just not right.


Al Bernstein, Showtime Boxing Analyst:

“It seems patently obvious to me that Floyd and his minions killed the Pacquiao fight. The bottom line is that the fight was basically a done deal before they decided to inject the demands for blood testing into the picture. Pure and simple, Golden Boy and Floyd and his advisers created the problem, and it ended up killing the fight.”


Dan Rafael from ESPN:

"Mayweather shouldn't be making accusations without a shred of proof as he tries to discredit all of Pacquiao's great accomplishments, nor should he try to circumvent the Nevada rules by asking for blood tests when the commission has never asked for them."


Thomas Hauser, HBO.com:

"There were times during the past month when the conduct of Team Mayweather had the look of an effort to sabotage the fight. A negotiator who wants to make a deal doesn’t go out of his way to antagonize and publicly embarrass the other side. But that’s what the Mayweathers and Golden Boy did."


Jim Strickland, David Diaz's Trainer/retired licensed pharmacist:

“I don’t see any reason of accusing Manny of using illegal drugs in our fight.”


Timothy Bradley, WBO/WBC Jr. Welterweight Champion:

"I don't think Manny is on anything. He's just on top of his game right now."


James Toney, Multi division Champion:

"Who is Mayweather to ask for the tests? Why didn’t he ask Marquez? Manny’s not on 'roids."


Mike Silver, noted Boxing Historian:

"I think it fell apart because basically Mayweather never wanted to fight Pacquiao. He wants to continue and fight guys he can beat and fool the public.


Roy Jones, Jr.:

"Hell naw. Why change the rules on me? Because I'm coming up in weight means I'm doing steroids? They're giving you a test for that anyway. It would be something that would aggravate me because then after I beat you, I was on something, don't play with me. Either you want to fight or you don't want to fight."




Question: What does Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joshua Clottey, George Foreman, Roberto Duran, Michael Moorer, Timothy Bradley, Chad Dawson, Winky Wright, Joe Goosen, Jose Luis Castillo, Juanma Lopez, Joe Calzaghe, most boxing trainers and pundits in the sport, not to mention the Boxing Writers Assoc of America and the Ring Magazine have in common ???

Answer: They all agree on who the # 1 P4P fighter in the world is!