Pacquiao ,the new WBC light weight champion

Manny Pacquiao proved to his detractors that he is truly the best pound-for-pound boxer when he knocked out reigning WBC light weight champion on the 9^th round today. Pacman dominated Diaz by his speed right from the start. While Diaz look bigger and stronger than our Pambansang Kamao (National Fist), Pacquiao remained fearlessly dominant throughout the fight.

As per post-fight interview with both boxers, Diaz himself said that he could not keep up with Pacquiao’s speed. His promoter even joked that for the next fight, they will get a slower fighter for Diaz. While Diaz fought well and hard, Pacquiao always had more counterpunches each Diaz’ offense. Pacquiao himself said that Diaz was the most difficult fighter he had every fought with for being much stronger, forcing him to give him all he got from his arsenal. Pacquiao’s right jab has gotten more lethal as can be seen in the fight. Woot! Woot! You got him, Pacman!

Pacquiao’s coach-trainor Freddie Roach was right all along about his ward about ending the fight somewhere on the 8^th-9^th round. If it has gotten longer, the fight could’ve gotten ended differently as Diaz was known to get fiercer on the last rounds.

On the side note..Filipinos seemed to stop working literally today. There was light traffic on the streets, people were glued infront of the TV and oh yes, I was pretty grateful that the regular players in the tennis court today were absent. Except for the pulot boys who mostly stayed glued to the TV waiting anticipatingly for the Pacquiao-Diaz fight, there were just me, my friend Anne and some kids playing on the court. We could have stayed longer too but we would rather watch the fight too. For Pacquiao, you made us all proud!