Why do people like manny pacquiao

Eddie Banaag, a year-old retiree, said Pacquiao was his idol as a boxer and he watched almost all of his fights. But he believes the boxing icon should have retired earlier. Still, Pacquiao believes he will always be remembered as a winner.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in career earnings and his record in the ring leave no doubt. The boxing is over. Sections U. Science Technology Business U. Rags to riches: Boxing great Pacquiao announces retirement. Unfortunately even today in , xenophobia is still a problem here in the United States of America where Manny Pacquiao has fought and trained for most of the biggest fights of his career.

Manny, of course being born and raised in the Philippines and not American, would cause many xenophobic Americans to rather see an American fighter on top of the world, on the cover of the magazines, on ESPN, HBO, etc. Who was the last American superstar in boxing to really win over the masses here in America? The presumption of innocence, is the principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty. With the rather impressive success of Manny Pacquiao's victories as he began to move up in weight class and dominate larger opponents, many became fans while others became suspicious.

Initially some were rather vocal on their opinions on whether Manny Pacquiao was on some illegal performance-enhancing drugs but as soon as he filed a defamation lawsuit, most of those accusing him began to change their words around and became really careful. According to Las Vegas Sun Fighting. On the other hand, Floyd Mayweather and his father's portion of the lawsuit seems to have progressed forward.

Mayweather has since been careful in offering his opinion on whether he feels Manny is on steroids. He said back in June in the Associated Press. Everyone is cheating. And I never once said Manny Pacquiao was cheating, only thing I said was this: Me and any other opponent I face must take the test. Whether the defamation lawsuit results in a victory in favor of Manny Pacquiao or not, the damage has already been done.

Many fight fans and the media feel the only way for Manny to prove that he is indeed fully clean is to abide by Mayweather's more thorough demands of random blood and urine drug testing in which he makes it a now prerequisite for all of his opponents ever since the Shane Mosley fight. For the record, Manny Pacquiao has never tested positive for the use of any illegal performance enhancing drugs throughout his entire career. Should Manny have given in to Floyd's demands for more thorough random drug testing from the start?

Many critics or, in the case of this writing assignment, haters point out that when Pacquiao went up in weight class, he utilized contracted weight limits on the maximum weight that he and his opponents could weigh on the weigh in before the fight. Many of his critics felt Manny should have fought to win these world title weight classes without the catchweights.

On the other hand, Manny also met half way with his long time ring rival Juan Manuel Marquez at a catchweight that was more suitable for the smaller Marquez at lbs for his lbs WBO title last November.

It is not that uncommon for catchweights to take place in boxing. Throughout history, many fighters utilized catchweights. It usually happens when a smaller big name fighter moves up in weight to take on the larger man one or two divisions above him. Even rapper Royce Da 5'9 raps about Pacquiao and the use of catchweights in his hit song Lighters. Via Twitter Royce Da 5'9 responded to me stating that the verse about Pacquiao and catchweights was not necessarily intended to be a diss at all.

Many of Manny's haters often complain that Manny Pacquiao should finally once and for all step up and be his own man and either dictate to his legendary promoter Bob Arum what he wants to do exactly, as in fight Floyd Mayweather next once and for all.

They feel for the most part that Bob Arum is a greedy, selfish promoter who would rather maximize his own profits then to allow Pacquiao to take on the high-risk fight with Mayweather. Arum has done some great things for his past fighters that include Ali, De La Hoya, and yes Mayweather. But what De La Hoya and Mayweather did was once they reached a certain amount success, they decided to move on and take more control over their own promoting.

De La Hoya also made Mayweather buy himself out of his contract with Top Rank first in order to fight each other in their super mega fight. Ever since Mayweather left Top Rank, he has been boasting on how much money he's been making and how he keeps percent of his fight purse.

Manny is now on that huge success stardom level where he could very well leave Top Rank and do his own promotions exclusively like De La Hoya and Mayweather both did, but it does not seem like that is what he ever intends to do. Manny might be lacking the business sense that both De La Hoya and Mayweather both have to successfully pull it off all on his own. Or he might just be that loyal to Bob Arum and Top Rank.

He left his impoverished home in the southern Philippines as a teenager and stowed away on a ship bound for Manila. Eddie Banaag, a year-old retiree, said Pacquiao was his idol as a boxer and he watched almost all of his fights. But he believes the boxing icon should have retired earlier. Still, Pacquiao believes he will always be remembered as a winner.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in career earnings and his record in the ring leave no doubt.