Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

Letter to the Editor:

Sportsman of the Decade: Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao (and their teams) are playing a beautiful, fruitful game. But I suspect the finer of the two, Pacquiao, may have achieved a very high level of true sportsmanship by not postponing the “fight of the century” because of his right shoulder problem.

He’s the kind of guy who would feel terrible if he had created so much inconvenience for literally millions of people by postponing.

I would, therefore, gladly nominate him as “Sportsman of the Decade” because of his decision to proceed with the fight despite an important handicap.

The hype, however, will be ongoing. Talk will continue about who will face Mayweather in his last bout. Mayweather will be considered a chicken if he refuses a rematch knowing that Pacquiao is in one piece for the rematch and could actually win.

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