No more running

Floyd Mayweather’s recent “win” over Victor Ortiz last Sept. 18 ended with one question: When are you going to face Manny Pacquiao? As if by habit, he answered incoherently when questions pertaining to the Filipino champ came up. Come on, Floyd. The time is high for you to stop parrying and deflecting the questions. Until you say you face him, without any of your ludicrous demands, we will forever haunt you. No more running, Pretty Boy, only fighting.

(Pacland fan art)

To many who are saying that Mayweather tarnished the sport of boxing by winning via an underhanded one-two combination on an unaware Victor Ortiz, true he did that. But keep in mind, they’ve touched gloves already and so, fight is on. It was not Pretty Boy’s fault that Ortiz was like an amateur waiting for the ref to look at them before he resumes his fighting stance. Once boxers touch gloves after the break, they should have their hands up already. As is the case, he was hit up high, and went down hard. In former ESPN color analyst and now coach of the Golden State Warriors, Mark Jackson’s words, “hand down, man down!”

With the win, Pretty Boy has nothing left to do except to face the best there is today. It is already there, just waiting for this American with such absurd demands to put his pen where his mouth is: sign the freaking contract already! Do you want to see people wearing KFC shirts with your face as the logo and not Colonel Sander’s, Floyd? That would be short of calling you a chicken as you keep ducking Manny Pacquiao. And you being a man, I’m sure you wouldn’t like it one bit and send Floyd Sr. to start the trash talk war to which the Filipino champ would never bite, being the educated man that he is.

Oh sorry, did I hit a nerve with that education quip? That was my intent. Maybe, in blind rage, you’d end up succumbing to Bob Arum and sign that deal to get in the ring with the dude you’ve been dissing and saying he’s taking performance-enhancement drugs (PEDs), Pretty Boy. Bring that 42-0 record you’re bragging about while telling everyone Manny Pacqiuao has accomplished less than what you have done. Seriously? You must be the one who’s high, oh “Money” one. Perhaps the lack of education shows through your knowledge that people outgrow their bodies, especially athletes like you. Come to think of it, even your fellow Americans aren’t backing you fully. Pacquiao has the entire Philippine nation behind him, something you’d only get in your dreams.

Come on Floyd. I’m not the only one begging to see a superfight. If you really have that ability to back up your runny mouth, why not do it? Unless... you are scared?

There’s no more running Floyd. With you win, the gauntlet for the superfight has been thrown. And whether you like it or not, you were the one who initiated it by taking up a fight with Victor Ortiz to prepare for a southpaw. It’s time to put up or shut up.

No more running.