Mexican Writer Writes About Manny Pacquiao

This is an inter­est­ing arti­cle. Here is a Mex­i­can writer talk­ing about Manny Pacquiao–known to many Mex­i­cans as the “Mex­i­cu­tioner” or “Repub­lic Enemy #1″ for defeat­ing the best box­ers Mex­ico had to offer.

I did not edit the arti­cle so there would be some gram­mat­i­cal errors here and there.

The Mex­i­can Point of View
Hes­siquio Balderas

Pac­quiao here in Méx­ico is an icon. Despite he has beaten a large list of mex­i­can fight­ers. i´ve gone to cover many fights here in mex­ico (all over the coun­try) and its amaz­ing to see how the ring is the dirt floor, no ropes, no real referi, just two guys beat­ing each other with­out box­ing trunks, with­out box­ing shoes, just their daily out­fit. Wether its boots and pants. But they want to be Pac­quiao. You would hear the intro­duc­c­tions as Juan Anto­nio “El Pac­quiao“ Mar­tinez. Or in other venues the crowd would scream to the fighter who is agres­sive “lets go Pac­quiao“ this gives you an idea of how big Pac­quiao is here in Mexico.

For his fight against David Diaz, Paquiao was a big, or i should said a huge favorite to win. I con­ducted a poll in the street here in mex­ico and 90 % of the peo­ple wanted Pac­man to win. They didnt know who Diaz was in the first place. Pac­quiao brings that plus that Mike Tyson used to bring to his fights and that is exci­ment, he comes to fight and that is what peo­ple all over the World like, Méx­ico is no exception.

The other fighter that is as pop­u­lar as Manny here in Mex­ico is Jorge “Travieso“ Arce, obvi­ously De La Hoya, and Julio Cesar Chavez jr.

You would men­tion the names of many other mex­i­can fight­ers here in Mex­ico, such as Terra Gar­cia, Cochulito Mon­tiel, Edgar Sosa, Chris­t­ian Mijares, etc. And they are known to the hard­core boe­ing fans, but sadly the gen­eral pub­lic doesn´t know who they are, but they know who Manny Pac­quiao is, its like ask­ing who Bruce Lee was and every­body knows that. When you reach that level, its when you know you´re a super­star World wide and that is the result of one thing. Ded­i­ca­tion and hard work.

De La Hoya vs Pac­quiao: its a mis­match, every­one says that. i believe that to a cer­tain point, but i also believe that Roach is right about oscar not pulling the trig­ger any­more. Look at his bout with Floyd jr. There were moments where Oscar would just stand in front of Floyd with­out punch­ing, but reciev­ing punches from all angles. When that hap­pens and you stay in front of an opo­nent like that its not only that you are tired is that you cant pull the trig­ger. i think oscar is very strong for the first few rounds, but pac­quiao its very strong for 12 rounds. And lets not for­get that Steve Forbes can´t punch and is a small fighter and if he was able to do some dam­age to oscar, pac­quiao should and will cause a lot of dam­age, speed is power and speed kills and pac­quiao has that and a punch, he should take the fight get that huge pay­day and move on and prob­a­bly begin to search for a few more fights and then retire.

The peo­ple in Mex­ico are still a bit angry with Oscar because he beat Julio Cesar Chavez twice.

I wouldn´t be sur­prise if Manny is the favorite here in Mex­ico over De La Hoya.