The Day The Crime Rate Comes Crashing Down

In the next few days, Philippines will watch as our great boxer Manny Pacquiao attempt to garner one more victory. I love watching Manny Pacquiao fight, he is one of the best boxers in the history and definite a great symbol of so-called Philippine pride. His worldwide televised fights actually lessen the crime rate locally, but that is another story, I want to talk about the irritating and annoying side of watching Pacquiao fights as presented by our local TV stations.

Very biased local commentators
Actually I don't mind listening every rant by our local expert commentators since they add the so called Filipino flavor, but most of the time there are kind of biased. They always praised Pacquiao like Jesus. I think most of the time they just blatantly ignored his opponent's obvious efforts to decimate Manny. Some of their lines were downright hilarious, exaggerated and ridiculous like injecting the power of the Filipinos in every punch Manny throws to his opponent.

Pictured: Power of Pacquiao's punches in nifty mob form.

Pacquiao always win mentality
I remember all the hype made by the media that Pacquiao will win his second bout with Erik Morales. All the festive celebratory mood of Filipinos were suddenly crushed when Pacquiao lost to his sophomore fight to Morales. Always remember that this sport is a competitive nature. Manny is not invincible and he had already 3 losses under his professional record. I will not be surprised if Manny will be defeated in his next fight because there is always a possibility that he or may not win the fight.

Victoly! er, Victory! even if Pacquiao loses because we are PROOUUDD!

Commercials, too many commercials
The pay-per-view concept is not a thing here locally and we thank the advertisers for providing us access to the show. On the other hand, we are bombarded with left and right commercials. I think there are more commercials than the actual show. Even between rounds and replays they will show another commercial. Sometimes the commercials kills the phasing of the matches. I think you can even have a long ass bathroom break whenever a set of commercials is on and when you return the commercials are still there, slapping us silly with construction materials and laundry products.

Aftermath after showing ANOTHER commercial for the 816th time

Undercard matches are highly under appreciated
A big boxing event does not evolve in main event alone. We should start recognizing other fighters competing in mid card, even in lower cards. The other matches, even if there are gem and five-star worthy of a match will always be overshadowed by the big main event. Local media should start advertise thoroughly everyone in the undercard, especially the relatively newbies. Remember Pacquiao also started somewhere in the undercard.

Undercard is sad

Everyone in the country will stand still, even criminals, watching and screaming in enjoyment as one guy tries to decimate the other guy. Hell, its entertainment for everyone and others even make gambling out of it. On the other hand, thanks to the Internet, I can watch the boxing fight without any annoying commercial interruption and biased Filipino commentators, via Justin Television, SOPCast and anything Google that can offer.