The Struggling Blogger

Tomorrow is another big day in Philippine sports. Because tomorrow is the much awaited fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

The Philippine pride and pound-for-pound king, Pacquiao will go up against his latest challenger, the Puerto Rican powerhouse Cotto.

To be honest, I don’t really watch boxing… at least not until the day I started blogging.

Never in my entire life have I paid attention to boxing. But since I started blogging I began to be conscious of not only boxing, but other things that are happening today – even things that don’t even concern me.

And with less than 24 hours before the Pacquiao-Cotto fight, I’d like to share my thoughts, not only on this particular fight, but on every fight that Pacquiao has.

Like in previous fights of Pacman, there would be less traffic tomorrow, and this I’ve witnessed myself. There are few vehicles plying the streets every time there is a boxing match involving Pacquiao.

And while others would like to stay home and watch the fight, it seems hoodlums and criminals would like to take the day off too and watch Pacquiao. Crime incidences were said to be recorded the lowest every time he climbs the ring.

I even know of a series of Sunday-seminar held locally which was moved to Saturday for this particular week, to the disadvantage of participants who have work on Saturdays. I guess they’d rather moved it to Saturday and have few absentee, than hold it still on Sunday and have lots of absentees – including the facilitators and speakers.

Another interesting sidelight on every Pacquiao fight is the singing of our National Anthem. Who’ll be singing it this time? Will it be sung correctly now? Or will the artist insist on doing his own interpretation of the song, citing creativity and personal style as an excuse?

I am also curious as to how many TV commercials will be inserted by the local TV network who has acquired the right to air the fight. And just like in previous fights, I reckon that it will be again too many that people, who has no access to cable nor internet, are still watching on TV and waiting for the result of the fight… while the rest of the world is already doing a blow-by-blow analysis of the fight.

And which, I fear to ask political, figure would suddenly pop-up and show his face in the ring should the people’s champ win?

Yes, there are indeed a lot of interesting notes and sidelights every time Manny Pacquiao fights for the Filipino people.

And one final note on this fight, I’m not going to watch it this time… because my TV is broken!

Congratulations Manny Pacquiao!

Mabuhay ka Manny! Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

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