Personally, I don't like sports that hurt the opponent physically. Though, even those non-body-contact kinds of sports, still, they warrant emotional pain to the loser; but, anyway, that is what sport is all about -- to teach the players the virtue of sportsmanship whose core concept is acceptance.
Looking boxing a bit deeper, it can be said as a mild and modernized form of the ancient deadly combat of the gladiators -- significantly, minus the killings.
Nowadays, though society no longer want to witness such horrible sight of spilling blood and eventual death of the defeated, many still find the thrill of seeing others beaten and humiliated and, on very rare occassions, caused accidental death -- all in the name of the game, and the dignity of winning.
I have not yet seen the entire boxing match, Pacquiao vs. Cotto. All I know is that Pacquiao won. Being a Filipino, I am also very happy that he did it again this time. Congratulation to you Pacquiao and thanks for bringing honor to our country again in the field of boxing. And if Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico has accepted wholeheartedly his fate then he, too, equally deserves praises for humbleness and stability of spirit.
Filipino champions like Manny Pacquiao (boxing) and Efrin "Bata" Reyes, the Magician (Billiards), are figures that remind me always -- that big things can happen to anybody in any corner of the world.
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