ATTY. SAGUISAG: Why I am not watching the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight 

I am not watching the upcoming Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.

I have loved sports all my life and became a boxing fan early on. But, the death of Jimmy Doyle in June 1947, killed in the ring by Sugar Ray Robinson, and the commercial overload, beginning with the June 1988 Spinks-Tyson match in 1988, turned me off in what W.O. McGeehan called the Manly Art of Modified Murder. 

Last March, a Pinoy boxer (John Vincent Moralde) killed his foe, Down Under, law senior Braydon Smith).

Boxing's one clear intent is to hurt a fellow human being. So, as a Christian human rights advocate, I am not joining those in the Colosseum watching the gladiators telling the Emperor, "we, who are about to die, salute you." Morituri, te salutamus.

I have been critical of Manny. If he had focused and stuck to boxing, I may have said nothing and left him alone, adored by millions because he has billions, and therefor, in our crassly materialistic society, a man of respect.    

But, to me, he has disgraced the House (he was recently spotted in the House, but the one he visited was that  in the U.S.) and the PBA, two hallowed institutions. Next year, the Senate (where I once toiled) and in 2022 Malacanang.(?)  

Has he received too many hard blows in the head?

I do not underrate anyone's capacity for change and subjective growth. But, Manny should quit boxing now and start serving as Guv, and preparing for the Senate in 2016 and the whole enchilada in 2022.

But, he leads all names in the BIR's tax evasion cases, with the agency saying that he owes the people P3.90B!

His Harvard Law cum laude adviser, Bob Arum, said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) papers were sent here in November 2013. By snail mail? 

Why doesn't Manny insist on fighting in Manila so Kim Henares can collect for our people? Why favor the IRS?

Good luck to Manny and Floyd, that they may not get hurt the way some Cauliflower Row derelicts have been.

Rene Saguisag is a former senator who authored the Code of Ethics for Government Officials and Employees.