Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pacquiao Fiasco

Manny Pacquiao's decision to jump out from his Solar Sports contract to go to ABSCBN and then go back again to Solar Sports in a matter of days is down right farcical. Manny is definitely a great fighter pound-for-pound but when it comes to keeping his word he sucks! This flip-flopping from one contract to another is the second time that the slugger has done it (check out Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank issue) and so I say, it is becoming to be a bad habit.

Most probably he thinks that he can breach a contract and just settle it with the concerned party by paying some of his extra Php 100M++. He has reached the point wherein money has become so much of a weapon --wielding it to anybody or anything that comes his way. Not knowing that in the process it has shattered into pieces his sensibility and honor.

He may say that the contracts he enters into are merely pieces of paper but more than anything else it documents one's decision to do something for another party. When you say you are going to do something -by all means and ways do it! Settlement is one thing but with what this boxer did --I do not think he feels good about it. (Well I hope!)

Manny, you have to be committed and you have to be authentic.

Our word is our covenant and being true to it makes us human beings - "you know".