Mr. Bob Arum, Can You Hear Me?

I could not agree more with Dan Wetzel  of Yahoo Sports  on his latest article "Brilliant Pacquiao's Prime is Being Squandered."
 
To me, last Sunday's  much-publicized  Pacquiao-Mosley bout was  not a fight.  It was more of an exhibition on how a boxer-- in the person of Shane Mosley-- can retire and punctuate his career with a confrontation with the best pound-per-pound boxer in recent history, and with a US 5 million paycheck to boot.

After the fight telecast was over, I asked myself-- did Pacquiao really need to face Mosley?

I understand that Manny's take was   US 30 million or  1.2 billion in Philippine Pesos-- something like Ps 100 million per round or Ps 33.3 million every minute of  that 12-round  main event.

But is  there any boxer out  there who will climb up  the ring with the determination to slug it out, instead of just running around and later claim to have  fought  with Manny and remained  standing until  the last round?

Until that boxer comes along, I suggest that  Manny's handlers --  Mr. Bob Arum,  I hope this post will reach you--  defer any more fights.  Otherwise,  we can expect more boos than jabs in Manny's future  ring appearances.