"The Event", Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey: Speed vs. Durability.

Well, today was another great day for me because it is Pac-Man Day for all Filipinos. One of my Twitter friends said that March 13, 2010 was "Happy St. Pacquiao's Day; parodied version of the "Happy St. Patrick's Day". Well, I was curious on the Cowboys Stadium in downtown Arlington in the state of Texas, in the United States of course. I was curious of everything. Most of the people, even the trailer of the "The Event", which Top Rank made, it is a combination of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy and the You know, the capacity crowd, the ring, oh, also, especially this one, I was oh-so curious about the 180-feet wide screen and I was expecting to see the Philippine flag waving in that said wide screen but never saw it throughout the Pay-Per-View.

So, I was watching the said card with my dad and we have that culture that we will go to every Pacquiao fight together with the massive audience of our beloved city, Muntinlupa. Also, I get so irritated with the coliseum barker inside wherein he called the candidates to remember their achievements to implement this project, SHOW PACQUIAO PPV. Damn, why do people care about it so much anyway?

Moving on. We went there at 8 in the morning and it is obvious that the PPV will start at approximately 9 in the morning because the stage is in Texas, not in Las Vegas and we know that the United States is a huge country so, different timezones plus, Daylight Savings Time.

It sure had a great under card fights on that day.Oh men, John Duddy of Ireland beating Michael Medina? Wow. Alfonso Gomez destroyed Jose Luis Castillo? Yes. David Diaz got owned by Humberto Soto? Yeah.

But here comes "The Event". All of us were screaming and saying a lot of bad and unnecessary words inside. There were a lot of average Filipinos inside and I think I am the only critical human being inside. Oh men, the irony. Clottey usually did his dancing when he entered the ring. Filipinos were very sarcastic and close to being racists when Clottey arrived on the ring. When Manny arrived, it was oh-so epic.

The fight was on. I gave credit to Joshua Clottey because he is an underrated boxer and he had that tight defense covering his whole head and Manny cannot hook him or give a stiff jab or more stiff jabs but if you apply defense into basketball, if you play defense, without shooting, it's a nil so, that's what Clottey executed in the fight. No combinations at all, just wild jabs and uppercuts but Manny gave him a good fight.

Manny Pacquiao won via Unanimous Decision over Joshua Clottey to retain the WBO Welterweight Championship and the Ring Magazine #1 pound-for-pound title. What's next for Manny? Is he ready for the arrogant Floyd Mayweather who will face the pressure on Shane Mosley on May 2?

Also, I did now see the Philippine flag on that 180-feet wide screen. Thanks to a copyrighted video from YouTube.