chant, counter-punch

gripped by the stimulating drama of manny pacquaio's love life, it's kind of cute that the boxing superstar is quite entranced by our national passion for karaoke singing. i can't sing so i thee not judge. i can't comment about pronunciation because i get tongue tied at mid air. floyd mayweather's words about his work as a fight commentator in between fights in an interview is a dig on the pambansang kamao's command of english. remember english is already pacman's third language. if the Q's and A's are conducted in cebuano (the visayan language spoken by 20 million people), he would be as fluent as anyone else. i love english as a language, but i stutter, i get stumped at mid sentence and it's horribly frustrating. nonetheless there's always a room for improvement and that goes for pacman, but with all that cash and humility, do english elocution still matter?

talking about boxing, going up to the heavyweight category from pacquaio's welterweight, let's tackle the issue of the greatest heavyweights. sport-magazine ranked joe louis higher than the former cassius clay. i did a research presentation about muhammad ali in my college english class and he transcended most sports and together with pele and michael jordan was one of the top three sportsmen of the twentieth century on most lists. he could have stayed undefeated like louis if not for the disruption over issues about 'Nam. one thing about lists though are that they are very subjective. every one has their favorites. in a few other rankings, ali is not even in the top ten. but he's surely top in mine.