At this time may we turn your attention to an imposition by the ruling boxing council for Manny Pacquiao to fight Oscar Larios for the WBC International title belt on July 2 at the Araneta Coliseum.

Why is it neccessary for us to remind you that accomodation of such an order by the Mexico based cartel is not in accordance with what is accepted as lawful.

Quite a number of titleholders have shown disdain by wasting it to the can.

Yes sir, legitimate crown holders have outwardly rejected the notion of representing the sponsoring cartels by way of
thrashing championship belts at a given turn.

Erik Morales, Larry Holmes even Marco Antonio Barrera and Mike Tyson at one time threw out their belts.

And yeah, Riddick Bowe did his act earlier if you recall.

Apart from such inane imposition, the promoter (Pacquiao) has to pay for airline travel (domestic and foreign,) billet and per diems not to mention the wage of supervisor, referee, judges etc which again to our way of thinking cannot be accepted as lawful– not to forget the various fees Games & Amusements board would be asking.

Manny can stand on his own merits without this needless obtrusion.

I remember when Luisito Espinosa defended his WBA bantamweight title against Israel Contreras, the WBC fight supervisor dictated numerous steps in order to make things difficullt during the weigh-in, use of gloves, bandaging etc.

The GAB at that time allowed the supervisor to have his way, disregarding our plea for use of the local governing rules..And this was a world title fight (WBA) with Luisito defending his crown in his own turf.

I’ll allow you a guess as to which boxing body will prevail when rules governing this ‘international bout’ come up for discussion at a pre-fight meeting of the Pacquiao/Larious fisticuffs.

And while we are it, perhaps we should remind the ‘revenuers’ that taxes due this fight should be collected since the law on tax exception does not apply to non-title matches as decreed in the Serafin Salvador law.

Why is Manny being subjected to all this iniquitous burdens?

I maintain that this is one of the biggest betrayal of trust given to Manny by his handlers since the sale of the wold famed Banaue rice terraces (more than once) by con artists in various eras.