Manny Pacquaio today successfully defended his WBC international super-featherweight crown against Oscar Larios. Click here for details.
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Manny Pacquiao is home. And for a day, a proud, cheering nation welcomed him with warmth and admiration. For a day, political word wars were put to a halt; and for a day, the people forgot all their troubles and worries.
But poor Manny. From the time he disembarked from the Philippine Airlines flight that took him from LA to Manila to the late hours of that Friday night, he was literally tortured, defenselessly taking all the beatings when he was paraded in the streets of Manila and Quezon City and made to appear in before various private audiences, including live television interviews. He might have feigned he enjoyed the limelight because by sundown, in one television show, he was already talking like a broken record – a sure sign that fatigue has set in.
I just opened my Yahoo! mail today and found, among others, the following press release, which was sent to me by former colleagues in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines.
I am posting it here, not only because I agree with it contents, but because it remains relevant.
No matter how many times sports commentator Joaquin Henson had announced yesterday that ABS-CBN was broadcasting the Pacquiao-Morales fight live, I did not believe him. So did many televiewers who were so frustrated that the fight has not started yet although text messages have been circulating all over the world that Pacquiao had won by TKO in the 10th round.
For reasons known only to them, our cable tv service provider did not air the South African sports channel where we watched live all Pacquiao fights in the past. Maybe ABS-CBN protested so that people will have no choice but to switch to their channel or troop to the widescreens they have set up in malls and other public places in the city.
