Cheap shot

SUNDAY was not a good day for Filipinos worldwide with the unanimous decision rendered by the judges to a fight dubbed as the “Fight of the Century” that went the distance. The Mayweather-Pacman fight was expensive, the hype was too much and the fight was not.

When there is no rematch in each other’s contract, one would think that the fight would be for the books and well, it was for the books: how Mayweather was the greatest defensive boxer from rolling shoulders to pinpoint hits and the steps that would put to shame the Dancing Queen or should it be John Travolta’s Staying Alive? From a Bible spewing fighter to a man driven and branded as The Money Team, one wonders if in the Gambling Capital of the World, oxymoronic narratives glue everyone together. That the narrative was all about money and glitz, the boos given to every thumping of the chest by the declared winner became ironical as Mayweather jumped to every corner of the ring and even made a pose that says it all: I won and I don’t care what you say.