Though I don't agree with everything written there, I must admit Mexicans are the best boxers around. They've master the complete art of boxing, particularly in training. But one of the most important character they brought in boxing is their heart. I've noticed that when our pinoy top-notch fighters fought the second rate Mexican fighters in the Pac-Larios fight, the Mexicans gave them a hard time coz they kept coming and coming. The Mexicans also mastered the art of coming back from knockdowns. This has been the weakness of pinoy boxers, many former champions, with some exceptions, lost because once down, they think it's over, never trying to stand and fight back. If our boxers can just have a kind of training Mexicans do, I think they'd be much better boxers. But I have to say that Philippines is not much of a boxing country, despite the hype we're getting nowadays, but that's because of Pacman. Most people here been just sort of boxing fans whenever a good champion comes by and then forget boxing when he loses. The last one being Luisito Espinoza. But strangely, out national pastime is basketball! a sport we never excel in. Though we were best in Asia until the 60's, until the Chinese became serious with basketball. And also, Pacman is by no means our only sport hero though he is the biggest one now. We have an all-time billiard ('pool' in layman's term) champion, Efren 'bata' Reyes (and he's sort of p4p all time best in the world in billiards) who just won the biggest ever billiard tournament in history, winning $500,000. And we have also the best ever bowling champion Rafael Nepomuceno, who's in the Guiness books for being the youngest champion and winning the most number of championship. Not bad for a small and 'impoverished' - as some media people from rich countries are wont to emphasize - country, heh. Why am I telling you this, well it's because there's been too much hype around Pacman especially among Pinoys that I don't want other people to think the we are so impoverished also in sports heroes that we've got noone else but the Pac and so made him a king. It's just that boxing is the most exciting sports.