Manny Pacquiao and the FIGHT that has eluded him…

from: By Ace Freeman / fightfan.com

Photo: Miguel Salazar

FightFan.com’s Ace Freeman takes a look at Manny Pacquiao as he approaches what is literally the biggest test of his boxing career to date when he faces Antonio Margarito on Nov. 14 at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas!

Manny Pacquiao has always found a way to distance himself on fight night. For it is in the eye of the hurricane that he has achieved his greatness.

The voices of the crowd fall silent and the hands constantly tugging from every direction fall by the wayside when he walks up those few steps and climbs between the ropes.

In a sea of change over the last decade the canvas beneath his feet is the one thing that has remained constant.

What was once a temporary escape from poverty and obscurity has now become a momentary pause from celebrity and adulation.

In the ring there is only the FIGHT