After the disaster that is the Pacquiao vs Marquez fight, one has to feel it for Manny Pacquiao. 3 credible organizations, Yahoo!, ESPN, & Sports Illustrated, has dropped him from the top of the Pound-for-Pound rankings and has him placed at number 2, right under Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Now #2 is not a bad place to be, but not if you’re Manny Pacquiao, the man many have anointed as the best thing to come out of the Philippines since, err.., well, the best thing to come out of the Philippines.
Over the years, Manny has always demurred in rating himself against his fellow boxers, dead and living. His canned reply has always been ‘I’m a fighter, my job is to fight and entertain the fans’. Or something like that. But surely, all those god-like adulation and near-blind following that he gets from his rabid fans and the heaps and heaps of praises that he gets from new and traditional media should at least made him feel good about himself, and made swallowing the ‘bitter pill’ (of being proclaimed as the #1 P4P king and an all time great) easier. Which means that when those three organizations dropped him ‘like it’s hot’ (sorry Dogg), it must have hurt even for a little bit. Like getting a soft love tap on the family jewels.
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