Told about the rankings made by Yahoo Sports that installed Floyd Mayweather as boxing’s No. 1 fighter, Manny Pacquiao
just shrugged it off, telling his Canadian adviser Saturday that he remains secure about his current stature in the sport.“We are not giving too much attention to that,” said Mike Koncz, narrating an incident when he informed his boss about Mayweather taking the top spot based on Yahoo’s rankings.
“When I told him that, he just stared at me,” said Koncz. “He doesn’t care what the others think because he knows who is truly the No. 1 fighter in the world.”
Yahoo had conducted a poll among boxing writers mainly from the US, Puerto Rico and Europe and the 33 surveyed, 20 picked Mayweather and 13 selected Pacquiao as their choices for No. 1.
Mayweather’s climb to No. 1 is due to his recent victory over Shane Mosley in Las Vegas, something that weighed more heavily among those polled compared to Pacquiao’s win over Joshua Clottey last March in Dallas.
Meanwhile, Koncz bared that Pacquiao, who has won a congressional seat in Sarangani, will be travelling to Manila anytime this coming week to attend to some personal matters.
Boxing is among the many things that is not on his priority list since the 31-year-old Pacquiao won’t be entering the ring until November against an opponent that should be named in the next several weeks.
Mayweather tops the short list that also includes the winner of the June 5 battle between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto and even Antonio Margarito.
Source: mb.com.ph
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