Bitter end to an epic rivalry?
Tatay was speechless as he watched Manny Pacquiao fall face-first after receiving a crushing right from Juan Manuel Marquez.
He ran out of words on how to describe Pacman's defeat.
My father, who played three sports while studying at Araullo Lyceum in Cabanatuan City in the province of Nueva Ecija, is no boxing analyst or expert but a mere sports fan.
He watched and enjoyed classic fights of George Foreman, the former Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Leon Sphinx, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to name a few.
Tatay, like most Filipinos, was hoping for a Pacquiao knockout win so the People's Champ could finally silence his critics that he is slipping and his career is going south.
He was expecting a knockout win, but not by Marquez and not the ending that happened in one of boxing's epic rivalries.
Tatay said Marquez came out more prepared for he doesn't want to frustrate his throngs of Mexican fans. He was more focused on training for more than four months, determined to prove that the judges in their three previous fights were wrong.
It was a punch heard throughout Mexico and the entire Philippine archipelago.
Tatay said El Dinamita has no distractions like politics, Congress sessions, thinking of ways how to serve his constituents in Sarangani, commercial and photo shoots, or even game shows, TV guestings and recording songs.
Tatay even said that it was no lucky punch that hit Pacquiao for it was an instinct of every boxer to press on with his attack and follow up a shot he just made.
The Pacman just collided into Marquez's right which made the punch even more damaging as it knocked him out cold.
Tatay was happy when Pacquiao managed to bounce back from that third-round knockdown. Rebounding and regaining control of the fight.
All of a sudden, everything came crashing down. He was particularly concerned about how that punch would affect Pacquiao's health in the future.
He believes that it will be up to Pacquiao if he retires or continues fighting.
Tatay said that if Pacquiao feels that he can still fight and has no risk of further damaging his health, then he could go on and climb back inside the ring in 2013 to redeem himself.
But if doctors advise him to hang up his gloves, then he should listen to the experts.
For now, he should ponder everything that happened to him in 2012. Weigh all pros and cons, then make his decision. He said that there's no problem if he retires, he has proven enough.
He ran out of words on how to describe Pacman's defeat.
My father, who played three sports while studying at Araullo Lyceum in Cabanatuan City in the province of Nueva Ecija, is no boxing analyst or expert but a mere sports fan.
He watched and enjoyed classic fights of George Foreman, the former Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Leon Sphinx, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to name a few.
Tatay, like most Filipinos, was hoping for a Pacquiao knockout win so the People's Champ could finally silence his critics that he is slipping and his career is going south.
He was expecting a knockout win, but not by Marquez and not the ending that happened in one of boxing's epic rivalries.
Tatay said Marquez came out more prepared for he doesn't want to frustrate his throngs of Mexican fans. He was more focused on training for more than four months, determined to prove that the judges in their three previous fights were wrong.
It was a punch heard throughout Mexico and the entire Philippine archipelago.
Tatay said El Dinamita has no distractions like politics, Congress sessions, thinking of ways how to serve his constituents in Sarangani, commercial and photo shoots, or even game shows, TV guestings and recording songs.
Tatay even said that it was no lucky punch that hit Pacquiao for it was an instinct of every boxer to press on with his attack and follow up a shot he just made.
The Pacman just collided into Marquez's right which made the punch even more damaging as it knocked him out cold.
Tatay was happy when Pacquiao managed to bounce back from that third-round knockdown. Rebounding and regaining control of the fight.
All of a sudden, everything came crashing down. He was particularly concerned about how that punch would affect Pacquiao's health in the future.
He believes that it will be up to Pacquiao if he retires or continues fighting.
Tatay said that if Pacquiao feels that he can still fight and has no risk of further damaging his health, then he could go on and climb back inside the ring in 2013 to redeem himself.
But if doctors advise him to hang up his gloves, then he should listen to the experts.
For now, he should ponder everything that happened to him in 2012. Weigh all pros and cons, then make his decision. He said that there's no problem if he retires, he has proven enough.
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