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Is it true that when boxer Manny Pacquiao has a fight, the crime rate in his native Philippines drops to 0%?
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This is about the forthcoming boxing match between Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao and how it makes the Philippines a crime-free country even for just a few hours. The boxing match is scheduled on December 6, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Where in the world can you find a country with zero crime? The real answer is …there is none. The world’s most peaceful countries will have at least a crime or two, even if it’s just a domestic crime. But for a few hours, one country stands out from the rest and that is the Philippines, a country in Asia with 90 million people. On Saturday December 6, 2008 (Sunday in the Philippines), the country becomes the most peaceful country in the world. The reason is, believe it or not, criminals are glued to their television sets to watch their favorite boxing hero Manny Pacquiao, in a boxing match with the equally-famous Oscar de la Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The last boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz for the lightweight crown, there was hardly a crime committed in the country. In metro manila, “there was no registered reported for NCRPO for the period covered, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. during the duration of Pacquiao-Diaz fight, said Police Director Geary Barias, Chief of the National Capital Region (NCRPO). He added that there was also a smaller number of vehicles in the streets of metro manila. In the case of Pacquiao’s last fight with Erik Morales, a crime rate of nearly zero was reported throughout the country hours before and immediately after the fight. Even the separatists and known terrorist groups would bury their arms and come down from the hills to the areas where there is television just to watch the boxing event. The insurgent group, New Peoples Army (NPA) would even bring television sets up in the mountains complete with cable system to watch the fight live satellite or cable TV. In the case the Pacquiao-Barrera match, the same situation prevailed. Barias said that every time that Manny Pacquiao has a title match, Metro Manila whose crime rate is higher that most cities in the country suddenly become a very peaceful place with its streets almost deserted. Whenever Manny Pacquiao has a major boxing fight, the entire nation is on standstill. Even the most critical politicians who cannot agree on anything while campaigning or doing their legislative work, are found seated side by side in public places where free cable television is provided by local government units. Almost all private and government owned television networks reported almost 100 percent viewership of the boxing event. Some politicians would exploit the occasion for some media exposures and mileage. They would be seen on nationwide television mingling with their constituents to get votes come election time. The popularity of Manny Pacquiao is a phenomenon in the Philippines. Because of his popularity in the country and elsewhere in the world, Manny Pacquiao becomes an instant ambassador of goodwill for the Philippines. His words and pronouncements are heard, read and seen all over the world. He can promote the country as a peaceful place to stay or visit and he can tell the world that the Philippines can survive the current world economic slowdown or he can effectively promote the country as the best investment area in this part of the world. The most publicized boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar de la Hoya is taking place in Las Vegas Nevada in a little over 24 hours and with this fight billed as the “Dream Match,” the Philippines may once more emerge as the most peaceful country in the world. That is not because crime stops. Bad guys are still committing crimes but the cops are all secretly watching Pacquaio’s fights when they should be out catching bad guys. Pacquiao is great. e burst on to the scene. What a phenomenon he was. And that was before he really even truly learned to box. No one could have predicted he would still be fighting and still be at the op levels now, so many years later. If Manny were not so humble no one would even think about Floyd Mayweather Jr. If Mayweather was actually the great fighter he claims to be, he would not need to constantly telling everyone that was so great. It is like he needs to convince himself! Sure Mayweather is very talented, and he was obviously a top class fighter, but his refusal to really test his skills against other top fighters still at or near their primes, makes it questionable that he is as great as he tries to convince people he was. He is smart, but building a resume by adding big names but only after the big had slipped enough to be less dangerous, whether due to age, wear and tear, difficulties with weight issues, and so on, suggests he himself did not truly believe in his claims of greatness. It suggests he lacked confidence in himself and was unwilling to test his skills in front of the world by fighting top caliber opponents at his own size and weight or bigger when those opponents were still at their top-caliber levels. in the way he did suggests lowers their peaks also is obviously smart. But even at his best, Mayweather was less of a true sportsman and less of a fighter than Manny was at his peak (and even several years after). I also think Pacquiao beat Mayweather in their bout and in my opinion, Manny was robbed of victory by what was basically a hometown decision. Pacquiao was treated horribly by the Nevada Boxing Commission which was no surprise given the status, prestige and, political pull the Mayweather’s carry in that jurisdiction. Unlike Mayweather, Pacquiao fully earned his record (except the limited occasions when Manny was the victim of poor judging or judging that was not impartial) . Many is considered great because he repeatedly performed in ways that demonstrated and proved his greatness. Pacquiao fought everybody without waiting for them to be hurt or old and he took large risks because he was willing to truly test his skills. Quite unlike Mayweather who ducked, avoided, or waited until fighters got older and things were no longer so dangerous before he was willing to face them, and even then demanded conditions in the contracts that favored Mayweather and generally made things coming up to the fight more difficult for his opponents. more difficult for his opponents. Mayweather’s constant manipulation of the rules was a smart strategy. Loading a deck of cards gives the loader an unfair advantage over the opponent. In that way it is smart because it raises the likelihood of victory for the loader. But it means it was not a true test and the one cheating clearly lacked confidence that they could win without an advantage. The loader cannot validly claim to be great if they had to rely upon artificial advantages in order to win. The Mayweather's, in Nevada, are a very powerful and influential family with substantial weight and prestige within the Nevada boxing community. What is the purpose of building up such power if you fail to use it to your advantage? No doubt it is strategically sound for fighter A to require conditions for a contest, which work to the advantage of Fighter A and the disadvantage of Fighter B. After all, the more Fighter A can stack the deck in his own favor, Fighter A has a higher chance of winning and a lower chance of losing. But playing it safe and manipulating the rules or violating them in order to win, even if successful, suggests an unwillingness to simply put one's self and skills to a fair test against equally matched opponents. A great fighter must be willing to put their skills to the test against an equally great opponent in a fair contest with no advantages to either other than each may be able to accomplish using only their respective skills. A fighter that is unwilling to face top opponents when both are at their best cannot truly be considered as the greatest.
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No, but there's a reason why people think so. When Pacquiao fought Marco Antonio Barrera, in 2007, the crime rate in Manila (Philippines capital city) dropped to 0% during the event (that lasted for around 7 hours). This means that no incident was reported – but there are always non reported crimes happening, that cannot be counted. Besides, the 0% number only referred to Manila, which only represents 1,6% of the entire population of the Philippines (with 1,6 million people, Manila isn't even the most populated city of the nation, that has 100 million inhabitants). Crime rate numbers may go down every time Pacquiao enters the ring, but because there are other reasons involved for so (for instance, if the fight takes place in Vegas, the time of the day in Philippines will be very different: 8 pm in Vegas = 11 am in Philippines; also, being Sunday, it is natural to verify a lighter crime rate) and not exponentially. Image: Getty Images