I would say yes that Pacquiao's public image has been severely damaged. But only in the Western world, as in the US, Canada, UK, it more than likely has been irreparable harm to his image and that people think he's on something.
For the other side of the world as in the East, I don't think so. I went on vacation to Japan and Hong Kong a few weeks ago when this whole random blood fiasco was begining to be on full steam (I would post here now and then on vacation and check on boxing news). Although the Chinese and Japanese are different than Filipinos, they did respect Pacquiao a lot because he is Asian and considered to be 1 of the greatest fighters of all time. Boxing is somewhat starting to have a good outlook in CHina because a few of their athletes won Olympic gold in boxing, and boxing in Japan has always been massively popular.
Pacquiao is a massive international star and he is well known over there. A few of those people that I talked to feels that the West couldn't handle that an Asian fighter is on top of the boxing world, an machismo sport that is physically grueling, since there hasn't been 1 Asian fighter to reach these sort of heights. I should mention that they did know about stereotypes and view of them with regards to physicality/athletics. When I was in HK, I was surprised that a few Chinese that I talked to did defend when it was suspected that Pacman was accused of PED usage. They felt it was like when the west was accusing CHina of cheating in the Olympics because they have won the most gold medals.
I'm just trying to give a different view point of the situation that people has on the blood testing. In the west more than likely Pacs reputation is in tatters, in the east not so. Different people from different parts of the world will see it differently. I'm pretty sure the FLips and Asians don't see the damage in his reputation. Just my 2 cents.
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