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Manny Pacquiao has two sons who were named after him. Yes, there are not one but two Emmanuel Pacquiao Jr. And I say both of them need to stop trying to be professional fighters right now. I will break down why, based on their most recent performances in the Squared Circle, and explain what they showed me about their mindset. On a happier note, I will close with how Manny Pacquiao Sr. just scored a huge KO victory over Floyd Mayweather Jr. And it wasn't in the ring. Here we go. Iman Bacosa Pacquiao just lost his most recent fight over a week ago. And quite frankly, I think he should stop boxing. And it's not because he lost. Let me get to that and I'll explain why. I will give you three reasons why he should Iman Bacosa Pacquiao should stop boxing. But first, I need to address the scorecards in this fight. Now, Bacosa Pacquiao lost via majority decision. One judge called it a draw, 75-75. Another judge gave it to his opponent 76-73, and the third judge also gave it to Pacquiao's opponent 75-74. Now that's all well and good, except that Bacosa Pacquiao touched the canvas at least four times. The ref, you know, intervened, had him stand back up, he gave him a count, wiped his gloves off. So that's at least four knockdowns. Now, arguably, there were at least two other moments in that fight that could have been ruled a knockdown. One of them was when Bacosa Pacquiao basically sat down on the bottom rope in the corner. Now the ref intervened, he stopped the action, he stepped in, he got Bacosa Pacquiao to stand back up, and again he wiped off his gloves. Now the rule is if the fighter would have been touching the canvas if the ropes weren't there, then it's a knockdown. And the way Bacosa Pacquiao was sitting on that bottom rope, yes, if the bottom rope wasn't there, his rear end would have been sitting on the canvas. So that should have been called a knockdown. But let's just say there were only four actual knockdowns. Then the math on those score c scorecards doesn't make any sense. Because if there are four 10, 8 rounds that are against Bacosa Pacquiao, that means he got four eight-point rounds. That's 32 points. So even if he wins the other four rounds with 40 plus 32 gives us 72. So how in the world did those three judges come up with 73, 74, and 75 points for Bacosa Pacquiao? I mean, it's crystal clear that they did everything in their power to try to help him out with the scorecards. And yet there's only so much they can do, right? When a fighter hits the canvas that many times. Pacquiao's opponent was overwhelmed with emotion when he was declared the winner, rightfully so, but you could tell he did not expect to get that win. I mean, he and his team, I'm sure they know darn well they're the B side if you're fighting Manny Pacquiao's son. But regardless of the outcome of the fight, I'm gonna give you three reasons why I think Bacosa Pacquiao should just stop boxing. First, he has a complete lack of solid fundamentals, and this was his 11th pro fight. So at this point of the game, you should be beyond what I would call a novice amateur. But that's the level of skill set that Bacosa Pacquiao showed in the ring. He's he was flat-footed, his footwork was not good. The way he stands, he puts too much weight on his front foot, which renders him not so mobile. And as a result, he tends to just work as a fencer, straight in and straight out. Now, along with a very limited footwork of just being a linear, slow, slow-footed fighter, Bacosa Pacquiao also does not have any defensive upper body or head movement. Now, that combined with the fact that he, in terms of his offense, he really only has a jab and a not very good right hand because it he throws it hard and it falls short more than it lands and it's not straight. Well, what does that mean? That means Bacosa Pacquiao is basically limited to just charging straight in on that line, throwing the hard one-two, and if he misses, maybe he falls into a bit of a clinch. I'll come back to that, or he just jumps straight back out, which is what he did most of the time. The only variation on a one-two that Bocosa Pacquiao has is he will switch targets and then just levels change down and throw the jab right hand to the body. At least he does that to mix things up a bit. But I mean, as a rank amateur, you need to have at least a jab, a right hand, and a left hook. If you're a little bit more developed as a beginner amateur, you should then add a couple body shots behind that. But there was, you know, other than that, straight jab, straight right hand to the body, a close up hacquiao does not have any body shots and he doesn't have any hooks to the head, does not have any uppercuts to the head. My former trainer Lennox Blackmore would say there's only six punches in boxing. Jab, straight right, left hook, right hook, left bot left uppercut, right uppercut. Now the target area for the bot for the uppercut, whether that's the body or the head, it's still the same punch. But of those six punches, Bakosa Pacquiao at this point has only worked on two. Now let's address those knockdowns, or at least those moments where Bacosa Pacquiao was on the canvas. The strange thing here was it looked like he was trying to grab or hold on the inside. When Bakosa Pacquiao hit the canvas, the strange thing is he was in kind of that yoga pose, I think it's called baby pose, where he was on his knees and he was just reclining down on the canvas with his head down, facing straight down, like just bunched up on the canvas. That's not a regular position for a knockdown. I mean, it's not like he got rocked hard and stumbled backwards and fell on his rear end, or he just got hit so hard that he fell down on his rear end, or that he got knocked off balance and he took a knee. He literally, it's like he wanted to touch the canvas and went down into that baby pose position. Not once, but four times. So that body language tells me he doesn't want to fight. That's what that tells me. I mean, even if we s try to give him some leeway and say, well, maybe he's training in MMA, so he wants to go to the ground. Well, that's a submissive position if you're fighting if you're an MMA fighter, if you're a grappler and you want to fight on the ground, you know, curling up in a ball on the mat is not a fighting position. So it sends the wrong message to me. There were a couple other moments in that fight where Bacosa Pacquiao made me question his fighting spirit. And that was because he did hit his opponent a couple of times below the belt. And, you know, a lot of times, okay, maybe once, maybe it's accidental, and you'll do your best not to do that again. But when it happens multiple times, you have to again start to question intention. And doing that more than once, you know, intention him doing intentional low blows is also, in my opinion, a sound sign of cowardice because you got nothing else to resort to, so that's what you resort to. Finally, at one point in I think it was in the later rounds, Ocosa Pacquiao did sort of a wrestling move. It wasn't quite a suplex, but it was some type of takedown where he threw himself down on the ground while he was holding his opponent, and his opponent landed kind of strange in a strange position on the canvas, and then you know, his opponent was rolling around on the canvas for a bit there. I'm not exactly sure what he hurt, but he was in pain for a minute there on the ground. So again, that type of strange wrestling takedown is I mean, that was intentional. And again, an act of cowardice. You know darn well we're doing boxing, we're not doing MMA. So that those are the first two reasons why I think Bacosa Pacquiao should stop. Complete lack of basics and not having a true fighting spirit. But here's the nail and the coffin. Bacosa Pacquiao actually started the fight out well in the first round. He did put his punches together, he was able to push his opponent back into a corner, and he got his opponent in trouble more than once with a flurry of punches. However, Bacosa Pacquiao came into this fight underconditioned because as the fight went on and his opponent fought back, you know, not only did Bacosa Pacquiao hit the canvas, but he also just his output decreased and his technique got even worse. His hands were held low, he was hardly moving, and he and his punch output, which is limited to a jab and a right hand that's probably gonna miss, I mean, even that diminished. So much so that, you know, by the eighth and final round, if you if you're Bacosa Pacquiao, and you know you've touched the canvas a bunch of times, you should be fighting in that eighth round with supreme urgency. And yet, what did Bacosa Pacquiao do in that eighth round? He did the posing and staring thing, or he just there was very little action in that eighth round. Um both fighters just kind of stood and looked at each other and then threw the occasional jab, maybe a hard one too, but nothing that was effective. So the fact that Pacquiao is the A-side, like that means that he knew well in advance that he was going to be fighting on this card on this date. He may not have known who his opponent was, and by the way, his opponent has four straight losses leading up to this fight, so I'm sure that's why they picked him. Nevertheless, Bacosa Pacquiao came into this fight underconditioned. So what does that tell me? Well, I guess you're you figure that you don't need to put in the work? Did Bocosa Pacquiao not put in enough hard rounds of sparring in the gym? I kind of suspect that might be the case, but that's inexcusable. If you know you're fighting an eight-round fight, you gotta put in at least 80 rounds of sparring in your training camp and preparation. That's the absolute bare minimum. So over the course of an eight-week camp, you gotta put in 10 rounds of sparring each week. Now, probably you're not gonna start out your first week with 10 rounds of sparring. So it'll probably be fewer rounds in the first and last week, so there'll be more than 10 rounds in those middle weeks. Maybe Bekosa Pacquiao also didn't do enough road work, you know, I don't know. But the fact that he had a good first round and then just his output just diminished rapidly for the next six rounds, that that's unforgivable, really. I mean, the number one rule for any fighter, regardless of how skillful or unskillful you are, is you better at least come in good condition. There's really no excuse for that. It'll take you more than one training camp to develop a new skill set, but you can get yourself in shape within the training camp. So now the bigger question is why didn't Bacosa Pacquiao do that? I mean, is it possible he took this as a last-minute fight? I don't know. I think the guy who has four straight losses prior to this fight was the one who was maybe brought in last minute. I he's not the A side, that's for sure. So what possessed Iman Bacosa Pacquiao to underprepare? I you know, I I don't know anything about his camp, but I can tell you this if it doesn't take a rocket science to figure out you need to be in the best shape of your life to step through those ropes. So if you don't do that, means you're assuming what you've done is good enough, which is delusional, or you're assuming you can get away with it, which might pan out sometimes for some people in certain situations, but it's a terrible assumption to make that you're gonna get away with not being in good shape in that squared circle. But either way, if Bacosa Pacquiao is delusional about how well he's prepared, or he's not delusional, he knows he's not prepared and he assumes he can get away with it, either way, either one of those mindsets is gonna get you in big trouble in the boxing ring, and that's why I say he should stop. Now, the only way around this is if Bacosa Pacquiao gets a trainer or two trainers who are absolute taskmasters and do not let him get away with anything. That means they're gonna have to sit him down, you know, even though he has his last name, they're gonna have to start all over again from square one with the footwork and build back up from there with the basic punches. Then they're gonna have to insist that he puts in the right amount of conditioning work with the road work and with the sparring, the bag work, all of it. The question is, are there any individuals who want to take Manny Pacquiao's son to task? Or are they just there to maybe collect a few shekels in Filipino current currency, whatever that is? But the bottom line is if Iman Bacosa Pacquiao is not willing to find a taskmaster and subject himself to the humility and the pain that he's gonna have to put himself through in order to improve as a boxer and a professional fighter, then he should just get out of the game now. Because it's too much, too risky, it's not worth it. Now, the only saving grace, and it's really not a saving grace, is in spite of what I just said, I still think Bacosa Pacquiao is better than his half-brother Jemiel, or Jemul Pacquiao, who's here in the US. Jemule shows even worse tendencies in the ring, which is he puts the high double guard up, backs himself up against the ropes, and just tries to shell up, and then thinks, I guess he thinks he's gonna counter from that position. I mean, that's almost even worse than what Bac Bacosa Pacquiao did. But I mean, same thing applies to him. Here's the bottom line problem with both of these guys. Unfortunately for them, they were born sons of a legend, just like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was born to the son of a legend. The sons see all the love and admiration that their fathers get for being these boxing champions. And that is actually sincere, right? Like Chavez Sr. was beloved, is beloved. I mean, not just by boxing fans, but by a whole nation. And certainly Pacquiao was was and is still revered in the Philippines. I mean, the sons see that and say, hey, I want to do that too. I want that love. But I'm sure what both fathers, you know, are thinking in the back of their heads is like, it's not that easy. And it's even harder if you grow up the son of someone who's already made it, right? Like both both Pacquiao and Sr. brought themselves up from nothing to these worldwide icons. And they could raise their family so that their kids don't have to go through the hell that they went through when they were younger. The whole point is now the next generation is not gonna get subjected to that level of hardship and is not going to have to overcome what their fathers did. So they don't have that inner strength to deal with what one must deal with in the boxing ring. Tell me what you guys think. Do you think Pacquiao Jr. or Bacosa Pacquiao, do you think they should both just stop boxing and pick up another trade? Let me know your thoughts in the fan mail. And Manny Pacquiao Jr., aka Jammule Pacquiao, should just stop being a professional fighter. I'll give you a couple of reasons why. But first, let's just take a look at his record thus far. Jammule had 10 fights as an amateur, so I don't know if he even had any fights in the open class division. When you start out as an amateur, you're first a sub-novice until you get three amateur fights, and then somewhere between three and ten, you're considered a novice. Once you have at least five fights, you could opt to move into the open division. And once you hit 10 amateur fights, you must move into the open division. At least that's my understanding. So what does that mean? Open division. Well, now you could face anybody who has 10 amateur fights, or they could have 200 amateur fights. So you're really stepping up your level of competition. Did Jammule ever fight in the open class division as an amateur? The thing is, it's pretty clear from his performance in the professional ring that he could have used more time learning his craft as an amateur. So not as a professional, Jammule is 1-0 and 1, which means he has one win by KO in quotations, and he has one draw. So I'm not suggesting he needs to stop because of his record. It's really more because of his performance in accumulating that record. So let's break it down. Jammule got that draw in his pro debut versus another fellow who is also making his pro debut. So you can't complain about the matchup there. And Jammule got the draw. Now, the thing is, that was on his father's promotional card, Manny Pacquiao Promotions. So what does that tell you? I mean, let's read between the lines and realize that Jamul should have probably lost that fight. The judges and officials did everything in their power to try to give him the win. They really couldn't do that, so they gave him a draw. I tuned in to watch that fight, and I don't think, I'm sure Manny knows that his son is really not a fighter. Because you could see Manny watching his son in the ring with a kind of a bemused look on his face, while Jamul's mom, Jinky, she was sitting right next to Manny and she looked really horrified. Manny Sr.'s comment after the fight to one of the reporters was, Well, I told him boxing is not easy. And that's a very kind way of saying, hey, you basically grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. This fight game is really not for you because you just haven't you haven't been through enough hardship in your life. I worked my rear end off so you don't have to suffer the way I did. I mean, I think that's kind of what Nanny Pacquiao Sr. would be thinking. But here's a second piece of proof that Jamil Pacquiao doesn't really have the heart to be a fighter. His second fight was an absolute blowout for him. This guy, Derek Gates, just basically came in to quit. So that was back in April. As I'm recording this, it's early July. So April, May, June. There's two months have gone by. You suffered zero damage in that so-called fight versus Derek Gates. You got the W. In fact, you got a KO on your record. I would have been chomping at the bit to get right back in there as soon as possible. Really, you know, maybe take a few days off, get right back at it. Theoretically, Pacquiao Jr. could have gotten back in there within three weeks, but certainly sometime in May. In fact, if he got another blowout in May, he could have turned around within three or four weeks and had another fight in June. And now he would have at least four fights under his belt. And given the fact that his dad is Manny Pacquiao senior and a promoter, even if there are other issues that I'll come back to, I'll circle back to. But let's take a look at Jammu's second fight. His first fight took place in November 2025. Jammule decided to step back in there in April of 2026. And in his second pro outing, I guess they decided we better match Jammule with an easy fight. So they basically bought a BKB fighter to come in. His name was Derek Gates. Now, initially I thought maybe Derek Gates would give Jammule a little more resistance. Because, I mean, it takes a lot of grit to get in there and do bare knuckle. But it was quite the opposite. Gates wound up taking a couple of knees, and then it became pretty clear that he just felt like collecting his paycheck. I mean, I get it. He knows darn well he's just being brought in as the B-side opponent, so why why I guess waste any energy or take any damage at all in the ring? Let's just take a couple knees, get out of there, and get our paycheck. But here's the thing with Jammuel. First off, technically, in his first fight, Jamil Pacquiao was just so flawed. He has just very basic combinations. He doesn't have great footwork, and he does not know how to set up his punches. But the bigger and more telling issue about Jammule is that he just does not have a fighter's heart. This was apparent in the first fight, where he was very evenly matched with this other fellow who's also making his pro debut. Jammule kept backing up and putting himself on the ropes and then shelling up with a double high guard and bent over. That is absolutely a submissive pose. You should never ever do that. If Jammule did that during his sparring practice, his trainers should have read him the Riot Act. I know I was when I did that in my very first sparring session. I thought that was what I was supposed to do. If I got in trouble, just shell up and put myself on the ropes. And I got really chewed out by my trainer, Lennox Blackmore. He just stressed to me, like, don't ever do that. And the reason the reason is you're just putting yourself in the worst position possible in the ring. You're against the ropes, so you've trapped yourself. You're shelled up like that, so you cannot see what's going on with your opponent. And it's again, it's a submissive pose. It's basically telling your opponent, hey, just hit me as hard as you can. I'm not, I can't see you and I'm not going anywhere. So just go ahead and hit me. That response should have been trained out of Jumiol Pacquiao, but the fact that he went to that instinctively tells me where his heart is at, which is he's not a fighter. The thing is, I think his dad, Manny Pacquiao, Pacquiao promotions, is not putting on a card. I'm quite sure that Manny Pacquiao, he seems to be humoring his son in terms of this professional boxing thing. I'm positive Pacquiao Sr. could have bought Jamul a slot on another promoter's card and gotten him, you know, paid for the opponents and gotten him two more easy wins. So the fact that Jamul has not stepped back in there since he got this blowout KO just shows me he's not that interested. I mean, come on, you your dad is Manny Pacquiao, not only an idol, but also a promoter. He's got enough funds to get you on another promoter's card to pay for your opponents. You got all the resources available to you. I'm sure he's got access to the training at wildcard boxing. Jimul has I'm pretty sure Jimul has access to the best coaches, best masseuses, everything a fighter would need in order to cover after a hard training session. So if you're a fighter and you have all the support systems in place that you need and you have the means of creating opportunities for yourself, the fact that you haven't created any shows me that you're not that hungry. And if you're not that hungry with everything available to you, what are you gonna do when one of those things falls away? If you're not gonna jump in there when you have so much available to you, then it's just never gonna get any better. So you should just walk away from the sport because you do not have a fighter's heart. So I did break down why I also think Iman Bacosa Pacquiao, Manny Pacquiao's other professional fighter son, I think he should step away from the game as well. But I said even before this video, I just watching Mule's pro debut was just like, this is not for you. I get it. You want the same love and respect and attention that your father gets for being a fighter. But as Manny even told you, as your own father told you, boxing is not easy. So, Iman Pacquiao, hang up the gloves, find another path in life to pursue. Do you think Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are ever going to step in the ring for their rematch? I know that Manny's still a little salty about his shoulder injury that hampered him in their first matchup, but at this point, you know, Manny's already just scored a big KO over Floyd Mayweather, and it wasn't inside the squared circle. You may recall several years back that Floyd decided to expand his empire by opening up a franchise of Floyd Mayweather gyms. Well, lo and behold, there was a Floyd Mayweather gym on near Hollywood and Highland, right in Los Angeles, in the Hollywood neighborhood, actually not too far from the gym where Manny Pacquia made his second home in the US, the famous wildcard boxing gym run by Freddie Roach. Well, I imagine with all the financial difficulties that Floyd has has had for the past little while, he had to liquidate, and guess who bought him out of that Hollywood and Highland location? None other than Manny Pacquiao. So it looks like it's up and running, and they've already uh redecorated the entire gym with Pacquiao's branding, replacing the Floyd Mayweather branding. So, for example, all the heavy bags have the Manny Pacquiao logo on it, as does the ring apron or ring canvas rather. The rope covers a coup I'm imagining the speed bag supports as well. The professional fighter of Filipino descent named Mercito Gesta, I saw footage of him training at that facility. And it looks quite spacious and looks like a good solid place for a pro fighter to to work out in. If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area, it's it's basically it's literally just blocked from the Hollywood and Highland metro stop on the red line, which is one stop away from the Hollywood and Vine metro stop on the red line. That's the one that's closest to the wildcard gym. If you get off at Hollywood and Vine, just walk down the hill for a few blocks. You'll get to Vine and Santa Monica, and there's the wildcard. With this Pacquiao Gym, get off at Hollywood and Highland, walk up the hill a little bit, and you'll run into the Pacquiao Gym, formerly known as the Floyd Mayweather Gym. So there you go. There's Manny's KO of Floyd Mayweather. He took over his gym.