Doesn't Look Like Manny Pacquiao Will Be Reinstated As The WBA Super Champion...

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  1. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    It hasn't been officially changed on the website or announced.
     
  2. boxingspitbucket24

    boxingspitbucket24 Active Member banned Full Member

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    Does it really matter tho? Still a big fight regardless.

    We can't say "F the sanctioning bodies and all the titles" and in the same breath say "We care so much who has the super duper ABC title."
     
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  3. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hard to keep track of all the belt bs anyway. Everyone knows where Manny stands in the Division, without the 'help' of stupid belts.
     
  4. Brighton bomber

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    Honestly who cares it really adds nothing to the fight and only benefits the WBA so they can get their share of the money via sanctioning fees.
     
  5. JOKER

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    COVID-19.
     
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  6. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Of course it matters. It's no longer a unification fight. If Pac beats Spence, then he's only got 2 belts instead of 3. It's not fair because he earned the WBA belt and has been inactive due to a pandemic.

    The sub belts are a joke, but the main ones aren't.
     
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  7. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Pac's bigger than the belts and has been for a long time. There could be no belts on the line and personally for me it wouldn't matter at all, it's beating Spence that adds to his legacy not how many belts he picks up.
     
  8. Toney F*** U

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    Most top fighters have fought during the pandemic, that’s not a good excuse
     
  9. JOKER

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    How many of these top fighters hold a full time high ranking position in politics?
     
  10. JOKER

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    I mean, belts matter. Especially when they're unification fights (like Donaire-Casimero). And they just make fights bigger. No one would really care about Canelo-Plant if Plant didn't hold a belt. It's why fighters go for belts — glory along with money.

    If Pac had a belt and beat Spence, then he'd only be 1 belt away from undisputed instead of 2.
     
  11. sasto

    sasto Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It shocks the hell out of me that the WBA can't see their way to giving him the belt back. Everyone they screw over and somehow the rules matter here?

    It makes no sense, maybe Pac didn't wants to keep this last purse and isn't willing to pay whatever bribe they were looking for.

    No one would care about Plant without a belt, people are going to watch Canelo and Pac regardless. Spence is somewhere in between.

    It's still a fight for the unified championship.
     
  12. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    You can't compare Canelo/Plant to Spence/Pac. Plant is only a title holder with no realistic claim to being the best while Spence is seen as the number 1 welter and Pac a living legend. Plant needs the belt to legitimise him, Spence and Pac don't require the belts to do so as they've proven themselves time and again by beating the best available.

    I only care about the best fighting the best, whether the belts are unified or not only matter if it results in the best fighting the best. Pac/Spence happens whether the WBA belt is on the line or not so they are irrelevant to me. The champion makes the belt not the other way round.
     
  13. JOKER

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    I see your point — and I don't disagree. But it still remains that a unification fight would have been bigger than a non-unification bout. It's just a fact. And also because Pac got shafted out of a belt.
     
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    He also think he can be bigger in politics. How could a guy who is the most absent in the senate. Back stabbing his own party ( Judas Escariot traitor) and lie about his academic record be good president. First of all he is dreaming!!!

    He must a genius to finish a political science course in 3 months.

    Well he said it was 11 years. Well, Mr. Pacqiao you did a BUSINESS course in 2008 which you didn't finish. Then enrolled in sept 2019 and graduated in Dec 2019 in political science. You lied mate. You said you are not a liar and now you are also a back stabber. Come on Fanny Quackyaw.Just stop this ambition to be president. Stick to what you do best. Punching people in the face.
     
  15. JOKER

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    You're being stupid. Celebrities get honorary degrees ALL THE TIME from prestigious universities. That's all he has—an honorary degree.