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An avid fan of Philippine national treasure Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao sent me an E-mail and asked me to publish his comment from one of my articles in Triond. I have decided not to publish his comment due to some reasons; first, it might create a heated argument in my article. Second, his post is too long and may occupy a lot of space that I have just reserved for short comments. By deleting his post, I earned a lot of criticism from different people. By giving my second thought, I realized that I was a completely idiot by deleting his post. I forgot that everyone is entitled to voice out their opinion no matter what is it, whether it is subjective or biased. It was too late for me to put his comment again in my article for I already deleted it. Fortunately, I copied and saved it before I deleted it in the webpage hoping that it is not too late to correct my mistake. I posted his comment here to prove that I'm sincere to my words and regretted my action. Here's his comment:

Dear Editor,

I don't understand why many people are discrediting Manny Pacquiao by looking at David Diaz and Oscar DLH fights. Is it because Manny beat them? Remember that Manny is the #1 pound for pound and losing from p4p fighter doesn't mean you're a fluke or 2nd class fighter. David Diaz will never become a champion in the lightweight division if he's just a fluke.

This guy knocked out Santa Cruz who battered Joel Casamayor. And I don't understand people keeps making excuses that Dela Hoya got beaten by Manny because he was dehydrated. What if Manny lost that fight? The credit will go to Dela Hoya and he will be the #1 pound for pound. He fought JMM twice and beat him twice. Although, it did not ends in a fashion where blood seeker fans wanted to end the two bouts. Does Manny need to kill his opponents in the ring just to prove that he won those fights? Grow up people! A win against Casamayor who is a real washed up fighter is not a reason to put Marquez above all lightweight fighters. Look at the fights between Juan Diaz and Marquez and you will see that Diaz just got careless in the later rounds a sort of overconfidence.

We cannot change the fact that Manny sent Marquez in the canvass for 4 times. Can Marquez do that to Manny? They had their moments during their fights, but at the end of the day what you will remember was the knockdowns and that separates the fights in even terms.

Ok! I understand that knocking your opponent down on the canvass is not the only way to win the fights. You should dominate the bout or get at least more than half of the twelve rounds to win the decisions. If so, then let’s go to the scorecards. The judges’ scorecards are based on the following; a knockdown will score 8 to 10 in favor of the fighter who knocked his opponent down. And for extra information; the judges can give the same score even if there was no knockdown during the round. For some reasons; the other fighter clearly dominated the round or the fighter dominated the round plus the referee deducted a point to the other fighter for unsportsmanlike conduct. The judges saw the two bouts as Pacquiao the winner. They may see something that we could not see in our screens.

Marquez fought Barrera and did not win convincingly either. In fact he was floored by Barrera and he was lucky that Barrera received a deduction from unsportsmanlike. If not that, Barrera can win the bout. Aside from this, Barrera was not in his prime anymore when he fought Marquez and look at the result? It was so close. Whilst Manny fought Barrera in his prime and knock him out convincingly. Marquez could not even surpass Chris John.

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