Mendoza: For Pacquiao, a question of word and cash

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

IT doesn’t get any better than this.

With Floyd Mayweather Jr. being sent to jail for domestic violence, chances are Manny Pacquiao’s case against The Fraud will also draw a favorable ruling from the court.

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Mayweather will start serving his 90-day sentence on Jan. 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This was for Mayweather’s cowardly act of hitting his former girlfriend during an altercation in September 2010.

In the same fracas, Mayweather, 34, threatened his two kids, then aged 11 and 10, with harm after stealing the cell phone owned by one of his own children.

Had Mayweather not entered a guilty plea, he would have faced felony charges that could mete him up to 34 years in prison.

Another case awaits trial for serious threats when Mayweather poked a security guard over a parking ticket issue in November 2010.

Actually, Mayweather swam into a flood of cases last year when Pacquiao also sued The Fraud for libel, an offshoot of Mayweather’s indiscretion of accusing Pacman of taking drugs and steroids.

With Pacquiao not backing out from the case, for now, I think Mayweather is in for more court tussles than he could ever imagine.

Already, Pacquiao has shown readiness to stay the course and for which I salute the Pacman.

He should maintain that fighting stance for two reasons:

One, he is the world’s pound-for-pound king and, therefore, he should be a man of his word.  Fight to the end.  No surrender.

Two, he should teach Mayweather a lesson in manners and etiquette.  For The Fraud to show disrespect to the king is treason per se and must be met with decisive blows to be executed to the fullest.

But the question is, if, by a dint of the unexpected, Mayweather would suddenly apologize and ask for forgiveness, what would be Pacquiao’s most appropriate reaction?

“He must accept the apology and forgive Mayweather,” said Valentin Dakuykoy, my ever indefatigable legman.

Is Pacquiao capable of doing both?

Or, must he heed VD’s counsel?

Methinks no, he must not.  

Now, if, like most suckers of the game, Pacquiao salivates over a projected clash with Mayweather, the Pacman will accede.

Money talks, you know.