Manny Should Learn His Lesson

Manny Pacquiao is all set for a rematch against his old nemesis, Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera. It was finally decided that two should meet again inside the boxing ring after legal dispute between the Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank has reached its end.

The dispute, as every boxing fan can remember, started when the Filipino slugger tried to dance with the two at the same time. His contract with Top Rank was about to expire, and prior to his first rematch with Erik Morales last year sometime in September, he reportedly signed a deal and received a pre-bonus amount with the GBP. Later on, he surprised the boxing world by declaring that he was staying with Top Rank and inked a separate contract.

Eventually, GBP sued Top Rank and suddenly, Pacquiao's career was on a tailspin. After his last fight with El Terrible, there seemed to be no interesting fighter to match against him, with Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez and other interesting fighters under GBP's control.

On Friday, we received the news that the supposed fight between Humberto Soto and Pacquiao was canceled to give way for a much better and exciting match worth waiting. Barrera and Pacquiao will do the waltz on a boxing ring with gloves on their hands to be staged on October 6. This match and the future fights Manny is going to battle with an opponent handled by GBP, will be co-promoted by the two camps. For other matches when the opponent isn't a GBP, Top Rank will be promoting Pacquiao whilst the other remaining to have an interest in co-promoting it.

This is good news especially for Pacquiao himself as he will regain the wide options in terms of who will be on his next list. He's on the top of his game and he deserves worthy opponents. Let lessons be learned from this, before putting back that gloves on for practice.