Algieri bout an insult to Pacquiao
By Recah Trinidad
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 26 Nov 2014
Hong Kong (on board Cebu Pacific flight AJ190) ? Cries of ?foul, trash, farce? against the sham of a world welterweight boxing championship in Macau on Sunday started to resonate as the tailend of Manila boxing fans headed home on Tuesday.
Many diehard followers of WBO welteright champion Manny Pacquiao made it a point for their displeasure over the tasteless bout be heard or felt as they lined up to board this flight.
There were two overriding sentiment:s: 1) The American challenger Chris Algieri was not in Pacquiao?s level; 2) The bout was a certified mismatch.
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?It?s a fight between a kindergarten pupil and a college professor,?pangit talaga,? swore Orly Garcia, a geologist from Nasugbu, Batangas as he joined other passengers getting on board at Gate 504 of the vast, orderly Hong Kong international airport.
Garcia took a break from a project in Laos to catch the bout, billed as Clash in Cotai 11, expecting an exciting boxing theater starring Pacquiao, his idol of over a decade.
The chatty, keen-eyed Batangueno said he had been ingtrigued by all the fantastic praises heaped upon Algieri by fight promoter Top Rank, headed by the sly Bob Arum.
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Lured by the expert packaging of Algieri, successfully peddled off as a budding superhero, a modern-day Cinderella Man, Garcia rushed home, bought a plane ticket at the last minute on Saturday, eve of the bout.
He would be in for what he called a ?most stupid, disheartening experience.?
Never again, he cried, for as long as Arum continued to use Pacquiao ?to cheat boxing fans? all over the world.
?Pinaka-panget sa lahat, it was the worst of Pacquiao?s fights,? Garcia condemned.
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Garcia could not fathom how Arum has remained in the boxing mainstream despite what he had done against boxing.
?I wonder, bakit, no reports had been made of his latest treachery,? Garcia asked, adding Arum must?ve been a very influential operator.
Garcia also wondered if there?s no higher authority to put Arum in his proper place.
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Anyway, as this reporter reached home after a long, chilling overnight wait at the Hong Kong airport, he was swarmed with protestations over the irrelevant boxing championship in Macau on Sunday.
The masa was unanimous: Arum has taken the boxing world for a ride, again.
Algieri, slammed as a raging coward masquerading as a fearless warrior of honor, was an insult to Pacquiao?s solid, shining stature.
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