Al Bernstein On Boxing: Manny Pacquiao - One For The Ages

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A thoughtful article, although somewhat reserved, explores a historical perspective of the importance of Manny Pacquiao's exploits in the square ring.

Major kudos to Al Bernstein, a boxing mind, knowledge of solid repute and genuinely, calibrated old school!

Here at Saddo, the same line of thought at present or at least in the not so distant past, have received powerful backlashes. The established trend is intriguing! It also makes it difficult to be a Pac fan. To be a Pac Fan is to own balls of steel if one is to convey any praise towards the relevance of Pacquiao to boxing. Otherwise, the silent mode. The community-friendly preferred mode.

Truth be told, anything about Pacquiao being great runs contrary or contrastingly to that of what we here at Saddo Boxing maintain and hold sacred.

Actually there is truth that we may only begrudgingly hold Pacquiao P4P king, because popular opinion says so, and not that we believe so.

At times, to the wonder and amazement of true Pac fans like myself, this Pacquiao under recognition can be a source of resentment, and a situation difficult to address. My hats off to those who can.

Why such stubborness in the acquiescence of Pacquiao's greatness?
Outside that of personal preferences, personal biases, I am stumped. Your guess is as good as mine.

I am on borrowed time here... so let's just allow the "Bernstein" to hash the hard facts. I myself would certainly not, not even the least bit. I have not entertained the thought of carrying on with such task in the past, am not giong to start now.

I merely stated my observations, and the intent is to offend no one. The effort was purely to express an agreement to those points brought up by Al Bernstein's piece, and to a lesser degree, to shed light to the oddness of being a Manny Pacquiao fan.

Pacquiao's greatness in the boxing world is solid. With still, a potential to attain even more!

Shouldn't we be glad that the phenomenon that is "the PacMan", is happening? Right before our very eyes, in our generation?

I certainly do.

Are you fucking kidding me? Goddamn, what a pretentious post. Gentlemen (and ladies), we have found the Terry Nutkins of Pacfans.

I've yet to see anyone on here seriously deny the greatness of Manny Pacquiao in any credible way. Everyone on here acknowledges that he is an all-time great and that we are privileged to be watching his career unfold before us. Exactly how great he will prove to be is a topic of legitimate discussion and I don't see any problem with people expressing varying views. Nobody dislikes Pacquiao, that's almost impossible, it's some of his fans who create the backlash against him.

Anyways, on to someone relevant, great article Al. Beating Cotto at 147, which I think Pacquiao would be able to do, would be an amazing accomplishment and the best of an already storied career. If he beats Mosley and/or Mayweather in addition to Cotto, I would argue that he is one of the top 5-10 fighters of all time.

Edit: When I said top 5-10 I meant he could arguably be ranked anywhere on a list of the top 5 or 10 fighers ever.