By Chris Williams: When you look around in the comment section of boxingnews24.com you’ll notice that Manny Pacquiao’s fans are in a collective celebratory mood about Floyd Mayweather Jr’s 90 day jail term, which begins on January 6th next year and will keep him out of action for the first quarter of next year.
Mayweather had been hoping to get a fight with Pacquiao in May, but that’s an impossibility now with his jail term. What I’m trying to understand now is why Pacquiao’s fans so happy about Mayweather going to jail when it means that he won’t be able to fight Pacquiao anytime soon. Now why would Pacquiao’s fans be ecstatic about Mayweather being sidelined by a jail term?
It just seems to me that Pacquiao’s fans really don’t believe he can beat Mayweather and are happy that he’s out of the way for three months so Pacquiao can continue to beat up the fading fighters that his promoter Bob Arum has been matching him up with over and over again. We’ve already see Pacquiao beat up an old Oscar De La Hoya, an old Shane Mosley, a shot Ricky Hatton, a near shot Miguel Cotto, a shot Antonio Margarito and a never really was Joshua Clottey.
Mayweather was hoping to fight Pacquiao give him a real test for once, but now that’s not going to happen anytime soon. So what are Pacquiao’s fans happy about that? Well, I think it’s flat out relief that their hero Pacquiao won’t be getting his backside whipped Mayweather and they don’t care how Mayweather is taken out of commission, just as long as he’s removed as a threat to Pacquiao. It’s sad really to see fans who’d rather worship an untested fighter than one that has actually been tested and has proven himself as being worthy of the adoration. All those catchweight fights and titles won against fighters I’ve never ever heard of half the time and he finally is about to be tested, the fight is taken away by a jail term by his opponent. And Pacquiao’s are happy about this. Why? I guess they don’t have faith in him, that’s what I think.
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