Moves on Manny

All this brouhaha against Manny Pacquiao is nothing more than just cheap shot on the man who has given glory to the Filipino people with his historic win against Cotto. While dominating on the ring, he appeared defeated on that Mass video with Jinkee Pacquiao. And the media had their day.

Manny was right when re requested not to focus on the Krista issue instead of the win he just achieved. But media was not to give us on such a juicy angle. The thing is, the guy has reached a pinaccle of success that people deemed all his moves should be put on a microscope for the public to see, and to judge.

If that is the prize for being famous, then being famous is not all that cloud nine. Clearly, Manny has to battle this out for himself. But what is troubling is this culture on how we treat our famous people. A taxi driver I rode once made a judgement on Pacquiao based on this Krista news, and not on the fight. The media has affected masses mentality.

But just like Roach when he interrupted a meeting of Pacquiao and Villar in Baguio during the former's training - he didn't give a shit, Manny should do the same. He should not give a shit. Cheap shots remain that way, cheap. And all the cheap shots in the world would not change the fact that he is the biggest name in boxing in the world at the present.

But what about this Krista girl, who shares the same judgement? Clearly she hasn't achieved anything Manny-like. She will be judged for sure by what has media pictured her to be. But that is just the consequence of poor decisions, for her.

Cheap shots for Manny, and even for Krista will die in the end. What they did, if ever they did it, should, of course, not to be condoned. But that is not the tragedy of this. The real tragedy is our mentality that a famous personality should be prefectly clean. That is not living in the real world. These people are precisely that, people like you and me.

So I don't really give a shit about those issues. The win Pacquiao achieved is too big for that issue to share the same limelight.