DE LA HOYA-PACQUIAO FIGHT

Yesterday was another day to celebrate for the Filipinos. I have two reasons to celebrate. I cheered amongst millions of Filipinos upon the victory of Manny Pacquiao a.k.a. Pacman after defeating Oscar De La Hoya on the most awaited dream match of the year.

The game has been really great, specially if you were able to watch it commercial-free. Fortunately for me, I work for a satellite provider in the United States that caters to pay per views and boxing events, so they showed it on all the tv's all over the office, they even set up a big screen on the third floor pantry so employees can bring guests to watch it live. Mind you, that's with free flowing snacks I was even able to bring some home. I rendered overtime to take in calls since a lot of people wants to watch this grand event. So aside from the overtime pay, watching the fight and getting free snacks, I'll have PHP400 gift cheque that I can use almost everywhere since I rendered OT for 4hours. Cool, isn't it?

Well, the fight has been swell, honestly, I thought all along that De La Hoya will win over Pacman since the former is taller with longer arms than the latter. I don't want to see any of the two loose, De la Hoya being good looking (hahahaha) and Pacman being a Filipino. But of course, only ONE will be proclaimed as the winner. It's not a title match anyway.

De La Hoya had his shares of major blows on the first and second rounds, apparently, Pacman was able to give his best and gave De La Hoya hard punches by the 4th and succeeding rounds that De La Hoya decided to concede on before the 9th round started.

Pacman really had a lead on majority of the scorecards even before De la Hoya called it a night. Pacman had landed 224 of 485 punches whereas De La Hoya had only 83 out of 402. Pacman had 195 power punches and De La Hoyaonly had managed to give Pacman only 51 power punches.

Pacman surely gives Filipinos someting to celebrate about. He's really living to that "destroyer" image. He's small but indeed terrible. Well, the fight was really great! I pity De La Hoya for having his hadsome face bruised. You can't win 'em all, anyway.

And another thing that I celebrated about yesterday?? Well, It's my fourth year stay with the company I work for...one more year and I can file for an early retirement...Hahahaha!!!

♥♥♥simply mhei♥♥♥