WE FILIPINOS really have a way with shooting ourselves in the foot. Just when every Filipino here and abroad were basking in the global honors brought to us by Manny Pacquiao and Efren Peñaflorida, some political warlords in Maguindanao brought unspeakable global shame to us.

And the palace has the gall to shout to the world that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is not cutting off her ties with them. What a way of putting salt to the nation’s open wound. My neighbor had an instant reaction to that news: “they deserve each other”. (more)

MANNY Pacquiao scored a quick knockdown against the Foul Mayweathers recently.

Pacquiao, who has been the favorite target of boxing’s favorite loudmouths, wrote in his column that you don’t have to trash talk to sell a fight. (more)

WHY did Manny Pacquiao allow himself to be bombarded with body punches by Miguel Cotto?

That scared the hell out of me.

In that fight, Pacquiao plunged into what we all thought was unchartered territory. (more)

NO FILIPINO athlete, female or male, has ever earned one billion pesos in total prize money in her or his entire career. And here comes a former construction worker who could barely feed himself two meals a day, who finished only his elementary education, who started boxing to lift himself from poverty at the age of 16…. go on to harvest P1 billion pesos. Not in his career. Not in two months or one year. But in 33 minutes, 55 seconds. Computed per minute, that’s P29.42 million. Computed per tick, that’s P491,000 per second.

Half a million pesos per second! (more)

BOXING is supposed to be the art of self-defense.

But to Pacquiao, that art is non-existent anymore. (more)