BOXING FEVER OR BOXING PARADOX
By Reni M. Valenzuela
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 22 Nov 2014
There is fever in media, and it?s a paradox.
Who can be enthused in a movie which story line and ending isn?t unknown to anyone? Who will take a cotton candy in exchange for silver and gold? Perspective is lost when a mature man becomes naive. Be not carried away by the sight and sound of wild festivities caused by this latest travesty labeled as ?Clash in Cottai II.? Refuse to be subjected to the lure and machination of crocs lest you unknowingly undress the modern Adam, to your utter shame and remorse.
Stand your ground, and so redeem yourself and boxing.
What entices you blinds you. If you patronize the ?Pacquiao-Algieri? and any of Arum-Koncz-Pacquiao rackets in the future prior to the Super Fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, you do the biggest disservice that can be done to the sport because history?s most clamored bout, the all-important super ?Super Fight? will never ever happen. And to those in media who entice the innocent for this ?fight,? you?ll be remembered for it by the generations to come.
Contradiction comes easy to the confused. And boxing is full of it.
?I do have one specific goal and that is to give the boxing fans the fight (Mayweather vs. Pacquiao) they have always asked for,? Pacquiao assures a week ago. Yet beneath such flattering declaration, he surrenders himself subservient to the very biggies who are among the biggest obstacles to The Fight.
Pacquiao declaims a rhetoric, ?It is impossible to negotiate when you are the only one sitting at the table,? yet the table where he is seated is owned by Arum and Koncz. The Filipino icon says he believes ?good faith negotiations? could produce the Mega Bout, yet his handlers seem to have only their own pockets to think of?
Bob ?Astute? Arum forever swears to make the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, yet Bob always cooks a different bout every time there?s an opportunity, as though the Super Fight is a leprous or carrier of Ebola virus. The Mayweather vs. Pacquiao isn?t everything, yet it may mean healing to all of boxing.
The sport is deeply into paradox.
Floyd says he?s the best, yet he fears his fellow best. He presents himself to the public like he breathes and wakes up for money, yet he dodges the fight that would bring him the biggest money, not realizing until now that the same fight would paint him the biggest coward if he continues running from it.
Further, Pacquiao explains in the same speech: ?As I have said before, boxing is my passion and public service is my calling,? yet he sidetracks himself from his passion by being into a ?calling? he is not called to do.
What Pacquiao has in politics is ambition, not calling. And it can be judged by his performance and attitude, and by being consistently included in the list of the top absentees in Congress as Representative of his native Sarangani from the time he was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2013.
A true friend is one who lets you see what is ahead of blind curves in a zigzag road.
Politics is indeed public service wherein ?politicians? have no place. I mean those whose focus are eternally occupied and pre-occupied in just wanting to get elected and re-elected even right after having just got elected.
May it not be said, as in politics, that boxing is ill and boxing loves being ill. If not the PPV (pay-per-view) numbers that will be generated by the ?Pacquiao-Algieri? circus, what better gauge do we have to determine the approval or disapproval of the ?fight? by the fans and people? How do you see the real picture if you don?t close your eyes when everything seen and unseen, and everyone else can be manipulated? Don?t mind the jerks.
Watch the Pacquiao-Algieri or love yourself. It can?t be both.
Go back to where your brain is.
Be ?ironic.?
renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com
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