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People are debating over whether the world’s greatest pound-for-pound boxer of all time, Manny Pacquiao, should hang up his gloves while he’s still healthy. From where I sit, I think he was right in deciding to scale up the ladder to go for a ninth world crown. With his lopsided win over Antonio Margarito, Manny knows he would not be a true champion if he backed away from a chance to smash his own world record.
All great champions dream of that elusive ego-inflating status as the greatest of all time, and Manny Pacquiao is no exception. He will go for a middleweight crown, then a tenth belt, and so on, until a loss finally takes him to the full measure of his mortality — and only then can he proudly say he tried his glorious best in the purest Athenean spirit. To be sure, motivating him is the certainty that additional crowns will make more remote the surpassing of his record, an event that is however inevitable.
Humans have not stopped growing bigger, taller, more physically endowed in all respects; that’s why Manny’s record will be broken as in all other sports in the planet. He is Asiatic, and therefore of a smaller frame than his black and Caucasian counterparts, for instance, who can grow to be heavyweights. It will however take a very long time before Manny’s superhuman feat falls, especially if the record breaker starts as a flyweight like Manny did..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101125com6.html
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