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My winner NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 11/15/2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

My winner

NO HOLDS BARRED
Armida Siguion-Reyna
11/15/2011
The man I married gave the phrase “spectator sport” new meaning. He watched his favorite sports huffing and puffing, groaning and grunting and heckling, as if he actually played them. He loved basketball, and like any red-blooded Pinoy male, boxing. He watched Elorde, oh, how he enjoyed watching Gabriel “Flash” Elorde. Needless to say, he, too, was on Team Pacquiao. I wonder now what Sig would have said about his favorite’s most recent boxing match.

I remember a Pacquiao fight close to one Christmas, when Sig first told me about the computerized “CompuBox” that let out data about the number of punches and jabs let out and how many actually connected, “samantalang dati nalalaman lang natin kung sino ang nakakalamang depende sa kung sino ang mas duguan at pasa-pasa.”

Like déjà vu, the word cropped up again at President Erap’s regular Sunday lunch gathering: CompuBox. Not, that I understood exactly what the men were talking about, but I was seated close to them, facing the giant TV up on the wall, for all 12 rounds of the fight. Every now and then, someone would say, “Ano kaya ang nasa CompuBox?”.... MORE

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URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111115com4.html

3 comments:

Jesusa Bernardo said...

kaya naman pala sa huli binasa ang resulta ay para lang sa mga contested na laban.

"Like déjà vu, the word cropped up again at President Erap’s regular Sunday lunch gathering: CompuBox. Not, that I understood exactly what the men were talking about, but I was seated close to them, facing the giant TV up on the wall, for all 12 rounds of the fight. Every now and then, someone would say, “Ano kaya ang nasa CompuBox?”

"CompuBox, as a family member would later tell me, is a computerized boxing scoring system used to settle closely-ought boxing bouts by counting each fighter’s punch — what is thrown and what actually lands. It’s a punching statistic scorecard that makes it easier to see who’s actually done the most, especially in fights that go the whole 12 rounds."

Jesusa Bernardo said...

boxing is a show. dito natalo si pacquiao--dapat naginarte siyang confident siya, mayabang, tulad ni marquez. lol.

""Pacquiao, concluded the paper, appeared at his press conference after the bout, as “a beaten man.”

The New York Times’ Greg Bishop intercut the scene in the room where Pacquiao’s inch-and-a-half gash diagonal on his eyebrow was being stitched up, with the goings on in his locker room: “While Pacquiao praised God and received the stitches, much of his entourage gathered in the adjacent room. Gloom spread across their faces. They cast their eyes downward, saying little, celebrating less.”"

Anonymous said...

Boxing is gay.

If you fight, then clash.

The rule in mortal combat is: There are no rules but you must win because the loser gets burried.

Boxing... is gay. Gay like glee.

Marquez vs Pacquiao the musical.

Fighting over a belt and the purse.

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