Quote Originally Posted by KananKrus View Post
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.
Speak for yourself there in the first half of your post!
Im happy for Manny and happy for his countrymen they deserve a break at the top,just look at their history.

I think to state what you have and generalize us all at Saddos in order to separate yourselves as "True Manny fans" doesnt help Manny or your cause at all.

Only the real old school here will remember I felt the leaders of the sport will eventually be Asian because they are growing larger every generation with red meat in the diet,better medicne, better genetics being passed along etc. They also have the many martial arts styles of training to pick and chooce from, also they havent got trainers stuck in old ways, they evolve and take in what is useful and cut out what is not where as many western boxing schools will show you the door if you show them anything they dont already use that works. Im glad Mannys style was natural to him and only after setting himself firmly has the western training polished him further and right on time.

Jealousy is strange though and has two ends to it, it makes some guard what they have and further seperate themselves so they feel more privalaged and for some others it makes them attack those who have got the best; but that sure isnt 50/50 its about 5% from either end of both ridiculuos thought patterns.

As for the Mexicans and some others who bet heavily into the Mexican side: they have lost alot of cash privatley to the Phillipino people. That would hurt and you could drag them into a stoush match over anything regarding Marquez and Manny as a few of you do that and mean to do it.

Unfortuantely some of Mannys fans are not as humble as the man himself.