Why Manny Pacquiao lost to Marquez

My guess is as good as Mommy Dionisia's, Jimmy Kimmel and probably your's.

Mommy Dionisia's guesses:

Minutes after her son lost to Marquez, Manny Pacquiao's mother blamed the pastor who converted Manny to the Protestant faith



and the fact that he didn't carry the holy rosary during the fight.

Here is Manny's mother scolding him for abandoning the rosary. Pacquiao respectfully tells his mom to shut up as the issue is for their family to discuss and should not involve the entire country.



Remarkably, Mommy Dionisia is not alone with this sentiment as an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer dated June 2012 echoed her beliefs or probably foreshadowed Pacquiao's Dec 8 2012 loss.

“Manny Pacquiao tends to listen to these pastors more than to his advisers and friends from political and boxing circles,” one of the sources claimed.

Those from political and boxing circles, the source said, believed that Pacquiao’s involvement in religious activities has hurt his boxing career.

Before, the source said, the distractions in Pacquiao’s life were his gambling and drinking buddies. “Now, the distractions are the pastors and they are far more costly than the previous ones.”

“The old Manny Pacquiao is gone. Atop the ring, he is no longer as ferocious as before. Unless he learns to temper his newfound passion and obsession, we would no longer see knock-out victories in his future fights,” the source averred.

Jimmy Kimmel's guess:

"The last time you were here, you said you quit drinking, you quit gambling and you quit cockfighting and then for the first time in 7 years, you lost the fight...are you going to go back to drinking, gambling, cockfighting."

Since Pacquiao's much disputed win against Marquez back in 2011, Pacquiao had a change of heart and decided to go to religion full time - as a replacement to his previous vices perhaps?

He also reportedly shunned extra-marital affairs and was preaching the "errors" of his ways.

Back then, circa A. K. (after Krista) - the Filipina actress he reportedly had a fling with - Manny could easily joke about his misdemeanors publicly. In a party with the Philippine press, he joked about a woman resembling `you-know-who-wink-wink-nudge-nudge' who was present in the room.

But flash forward to circa A.P. (after Pastor), when Manny was interviewed during his training at Freddie Roach's gym by a GMA News reporter and he was being watched by or was within the vicinity of a beautiful full-breasted woman, Manny couldn't even look at her or acknowledge her presence and jokes with the reporter not to say bad words or something to that effect. (Apologies, I cant find these vids online)

Does Manny Pacquiao need to go back to his old ways so he can get his groove back?


My guess:

Wait a minit, wasn't Pacquiao's mojo already waning in 2011 when he won against Marquez? A win that Marquez fans thought was rigged. Though Pacquiao technically landed "more strikes, 176 to 138, and land(ed) more power punches, 117 to 100"  his win wasn't really that convincing thus the 2012 rematch to prove who really had the best mojo?

Could Manny turning to bible studies and God his way of cleansing himself from potential losses and unsatisfactory win and is his way to bring himself luck?

Maybe, maybe not.

But insiders claim that his new found faith is similarly a vice, the same way gambling was.

"A source close to Pacquiao told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that these pastors have been abusing the man’s kindness and generosity.

“They are making our boxing idol a milking cow. The real Manny Pacquiao doesn’t know how to say no."

Is it because he's a boxer thus his poor boundaries? or is it because he's a regular dude - regular dudes have difficulty saying no for some reason, specially dudes who are concerned with what people will think of them when they do.

Does Pacquiao need to go back to his vices so he can get his energy back?

I think it's not that he needs to go back to his vices but that he should acknowledge his desires for these vices. Maybe him repressing his desires is taking a lot of his energy - which he could channel instead to the fight.

But then, if he did go to his old ways and still lose, him being in a vice might be seen as the cause of his loss.

Or maybe a boxer's career really is short and sweet the same way music producer/singer/composer David Foster says about musical artists: `they could only make Billboard-topping music for a specific amount of time after which the magic just fades.'


As an experiment, I wonder if Manny Pacquiao is open to trying out gambling, cockfighting again and carrying the rosary, let's see if he wins next time.

Or did the gay community hex Manny's fights because Pacquiao called all of them "sinners"?


Whatchathink?