Who will Manny Pacquiao fight next?

If not Floyd, Manny should retire


A lot has transpired since Manny Pacquaio showed mercy on Antonio Margarito last week. Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum spewed at the mouth claiming Pacquiao was the Greatest Of All Time, every fighter and their brother has called Manny out (except Floyd of course, who doesn’t want to put up), with various other so called boxing reporters wanting to see Manny fight 6’3” Paul Williams, a true middleweight, get in the ring with 5’6” Manny Pacquiao. My question is why don’t they want Floyd to fight the likes of Paul Williams? The naysayers are questioning Pacquiao’s choice of opponent, claiming things like, “Margarito is washed up, or Hatton was fat.”

Yet where is the criticism of Floyd, who fights lightweight Juan Manual Marquez, or a washed up Shane Mosely?” Is it a double standard? So called boxing reporter Tim Smith, (who questions why Manny won’t fight 6’3” middleweight Paul Williams but says nothing about Floyd fighting Paul Williams) with the NY Daily News is picking apart Pacquiao’s accomplishments, decrying catch-weights, and otherwise belittling Manny’s accomplishments with his fiction piece, even though Smith swallowed, hook, line and sinker Roger Mayweather’s FICTION that Manny is on performance enhancing drugs, specifically a steroid called “A Side Meth” which in medical reality does not exist. Now that Sergio Martinez knocked out Paull Williams, so called boxing writers are demanding Manny to "man up" and fight Martinez, a middleweight who would probably knock Manny out. Martinez said himself that Manny is too small. Manny needs to fight other fighters closer to his natural weight. He couldn't even make the 150lb catch weight in his fight with Margarito, and now people want him to fight Martinez at 160lb?

Of course Smith quantified his drivel with “the last two years,” completely ignoring Pacquiao’s accomplishments against boxers Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, and Juan Manual Marquez, who he fought in their prime.
Then you have Bernard Hopkins spewing his mouth off that Pacquiao hasn’t had a bout with any African-AMERICAN fighters, specifically INNER CITY African-Americans, as if this is a hindrance to Pacquiao’s greatness.

Why is there so much negativity written about Pacquiao in the past week. And why do the naysayer’s such as Smith always have an excuse with regard to Pacquiao’s greatness? Because he is a “little man” from a third world country far off where the Pacific Ocean meets the South China Sea? A “little man” who has trained hard to get to where he is right now, at the TOP of the boxing world? American boxing writers can’t accept that fact?

The Mayweather camp and their “A side Meth” claim is the most ridiculous of all, finding it seemingly unbelievable that Manny could climb weight divisions like he has, forgetting their current 2nd best pound for pound fighter also started in the SAME weight class as Manny. They both must be on “A side Meth.”


Now it looks as if Pacquiao is readying to fight Shane Mosely, a fighter who Floyd Mayweather avoided in Shane’s prime, yet easily defeated in their bout last May. It looks as if Pacquaio needs to step up and tell his promoters that no, he won’t be a punching bag until Floyd decides he is softened up enough to get in the ring. It seems that Floyd’s strategy is now to keep quiet until Pacquiao gets beat on a few more times, then later agrees to fight Manny after Manny fights a few more times and gets worn out, the same strategy he employed with Shane. Floyd avoided Cotto and Margarito altogether, and just because Shane beat Margarito doesn’t mean Floyd could do the same.

Boxing fans have tired of Mayweather, and they will tire of Pacquiao if Pacquiao’s promoters continue to match Pacquiao with boxers who will do nothing for Pacquiao’s legacy. At this point in Manny’s career, he needs to make the tough decisions and stick with them. We know where Arum’s and Koncz’ loyalties lie, and that is in their pocketbooks. The more Manny fights, the more money they make. Manny already has enough money. His tens of millions of dollars are billions of pesos in the Philippines, that third world country of 90 million that produced a one in 90 million “little man,” with the Pac Man Punch.