Let's not turn this into a nappy headed ho incident.


Those darn rowdy Mexicans!
(I am Mexican American) Don't hate cus the title.
Texan's are azzholes. This is why Bush fit in Texas so well.

Manny Pacquaio's Priest: Drunken Bums Threw Beer At Pinoy Idol!
www.boxingconfidential.com
Michael Marley
4/15/2007

SAN ANTONIO--My source is connected to a Higher Power. My source knows the Big Guy and I don't mean Don Jose Sulaiman or Bob Arum. My source is none other than Manny Pacquaio's close personal friend and "priest."

And my source said some Neanderthals in the Alamodome showered Pacman and his entourage with warm beer as they made their way from the dressing room to the ring Saturday night at the Alamodome. Once in that ring, Pacman took eight rounds to solve the style of rangy Jorge Solis but solve it he did, dropping the Mexican boxer twice for the knockout.

Getting back to the beer shower, there was more than one cup of less than frosty cerveza tossed at Pacman and his posse as they came out of the tunnel from the dressing room. At least one member of Pacma's crew wanted to wade into the nearly 100 percent Mexicano crowd and start dispensing some Pinoy payback for the rude and obnoxious behavior.

But Manny himself told everyone to ignore the people," Fr. Marlon Beof told me when we met by coincidence at the San Antonio Airport early Sunday morning. Fr. Beof is a teacher of seminarians and is based at the Tagaste Monastery in Suffern, New York. "Manny was focused on the fight and everybody just kept moving toward the ring."

I didn't share this with Pacman's Padre but I've seen worse behavior by fans at a fight card in the Alamo City.

On June 15, 1991, at the Hemisfair Arena, local hero and world champ Robert Quiroga (who was stabbed to death in 2004) waged a classic slugfest which left his opponent, Kid Akeem Aniofowoshe, unconscious.

Kid Akeem, a fallen warrior who had a blood clot on the brain and never boxed again, was taken out of the ring on a stretcher and rushed to an ambulance. As the medical people tried to push their way through the crowd, one miserable drunk dropped his pants and urinated in the direction of the stretcher and the prone African boxer. I was walking out of the arena, trying to follow the story, and I saw this contemptible action. To make it worse, I saw other fans laughing at the ultimate show of disrespect for a badly injured prizefighter. Some of those cretins tossed beer cups at Kid Akeem.

In my 40-plus years around big-time boxing, that is the low point for fan behavior that I've personally witnessed.

So, in one way, I suppose Pacman and his entourage were lucky. By the way, could they be sure it was only beer that was hurled at Manny and his merry band of men?

"I can tell you this," Fr. Beof said, "it was definitely not holy water."

Amen to that.