Comments on: HOW MUCH LONGER WILL BOXING BOW TO PACQUIAO?

By: Medaite’s Ann Coulter, Frances Martel, makes fools of them with Obama ‘affair’ smear : The Reid Report

Sat, 01 May 2010 21:32:15 +0000

[...] So who is Frances Martel? I’m still waiting for confirmation from Mediaite, but she appears to be a recent Harvard grad who made a name for herself by getting a writing gig at the boxing site Ring Talk, becoming the site’s lone female reporter before she even graduated. At Ring Talk, Martel earned the ire of some boxing fans for her zealous disdain for boxer Manny Pacquiao, whom she apparently believes is on steroids. [...]

By: cary s

cary s — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:30:18 +0000

agreed!

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By: godzilla

godzilla — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:06:51 +0000

amen @jim

By: jim

jim — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:42 +0000

He has very little discernable boxing skill, relying only on his chaotic punching and seemingly indomitable chin>>>>>

I can care less about your politics. Im a right winger myself, but if you believe what you wrote – you have very little discernable boxing knowlege

By: atozet

atozet — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:49:38 +0000

To All Pacman Fans,

This fight chick has doped all the pacman fans. Write anything pro or specially against Pacquiao and your website gets a thousand if not a million hits. That’s how their website make money and that’s the name of the game in this kind of journalism. If FM is playing the mind of his opponent, this chick is also playing the minds of Pacman fans. Best advise, it’s not worth wasting your time on this kind of trash talker. If this chick is for real, put in writing that Pacman is on PED and challenge Pacman in court to prove it wrong.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:43:22 +0000

Saying Pacquiao lacks boxing skill and is a brawler is silly. Yes his blinding speed is his best asset but he is a good boxer too.

Actually that raises an interesting question: Would illegal drugs really help a fighter’s hand speed? Not sure about that…

By: Pedro Fernandez

Pedro Fernandez — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:26:11 +0000

It is not about Manny dencia.

By: dencio

dencio — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:06:14 +0000

Yeah PEDRO, the LA Times is working on a story against pac, cause maybe, u told them that the story would become a blockbuster, ADMIT it, this site found a gold mine in Manny Pacquiao….and the LA Times, if ever that story comes out. I hope they have enough evidences in them or they might get sued

By: Jesustheprofect

Jesustheprofect — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:58:33 +0000

The fight chick, “Cotto, Hatton, and even an old Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) are far superior boxers, and yet they found themselves unable to respond to Pacquiao’s punches, as well as unable to get to the smaller fighter’s chin. Given his track record, I have to respectfully disagree with our own Jarrad Woods and say that Clottey really doesn’t stand a chance.”

The fight chick is a prophet…she saw this fight exactly how it played out. How many KOs did Clottey has in his last 15 fights? This was a mismatch, and all but Pacfans who both this event expecting to see a competitive fight got “p(i)mped” by Arum, TopRank, and Pacman.

By: invictus

invictus — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:05:14 +0000

I’m printing this article so me and my friends can read it over a cup of coffee and enjoy a good round of laughter. this is a funny article. OK so maybe it deserves to be on a comedy website more, but then again, it wouldn’t have received this much attention otherwise.

when i read it I was imagining a whiny, teenager complaining why she cant go to her friends beach party or something. with that imagery in mind, i couldn’t help but laugh when I read article. it’s an attention grabber and emotion stirrer… not a serious piece of journalistic reporting. so guys, give her a break. and let her have her piece of heaven.

seriously… a man is only as big as the smallest thing that makes him angry.

peace brothers!

By: invictus

invictus — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:55:41 +0000

HA HA HA! This article had me laughing my head off. It was so ridiculous it was great. As soon as you get over the initial shock, it read like a saturday night skit!

reminds me of my own kids arguing with me with more certainty than facts. if she is from Harvard, then she follows the beautiful dogma that “logic is the systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.”

guys, Leave her be! She’s just trying to wet her feet in the art of sensationalist writing. shock and awe to get attention, and from the number of responses she got, i think she succeeded! although her victory might be phyrric…tsk, tsk, tsk.
ah, well…cest la vie.

By: Ten Count

Ten Count — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:28:57 +0000

I suppose Fight Chick also believes that Orlando Saldido would also destroy Hatton, DLH % Cotto since he’s already tested positive for PEDs so if Fight Chick believes that’s all it takes to turn a sub par brawler into world beater.

Maybe Fight Chick feels Danny Batchelder is the most dangerous heavyweight in the world since he also tested positive – I mean since thesting is such a joke, anyone who actually tests positive must be really overdoing it – so Batchelder must be total monster with all that juice going for it.

If it were that simple, everybody and their neighbour would be KO’ing 2-time champions the way Pacquiao is.

By: tony boy

tony boy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:05:50 +0000

this piece of foul smelling “earth” like to have some attention, she must be having the urged and most likely wet all over to have the pacman have her. damn this little girl speaks loudly how she like to do it with the # 1 p4p in the world. sorry girl, i believe you are way out of his sight..it makes him puke. accusing someone without a shred of evidence is purely an attention seeker. now you got me, but not the pacman.

By: Bernice Vee

Bernice Vee — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:18 +0000

I thought you were related to the Gayweather’s for sure but you don’t look like a sister. . .

By: Screwed Up

Screwed Up — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:58:37 +0000

Theres no sort of intelligence that I can tell from this writer…first of all who the hell is she to talk about boxing ??? She is just a student and not even an athletic….what kind of intelligence do you have basing your story on assumptions ??? get real !

By: Qdigga

Qdigga — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:46:59 +0000

I hear so much BS being said but no one has come up with a legit reason why Manny wont submit to random testing. If it’s mandatory for kids in the Olympics it should be mandatory for professional sports making millions of dollars. Either we’re gonna allow PED’s or not but let’s cut the BS cheating. There is absolutely no reason why Manny wont submit unless he’s cheating and in my book there’s no doubt he is.

By: Amer-Fil

Amer-Fil — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:39:00 +0000

Come on…why does everyone who is against Pacman believes in someone who was caught in drug trafficking and who does drugs ? He only says that because he just cant believe an Asian man who is small can beat up someone who is slightly bigger…nobody really wants to acknowledge this or even accept this but in reality its just jealousy and racial bias because the boxing 7 title champion is from a third world country !! look at it this way if Pacman is really using steroids why would he file a defamation lawsuit and subject himself to ridicule and counter lawsuit if its frivolous ??????? Any intelligent person would know this. Why are they making so mind puzzling for a man his size ( 5′-6-1/2″ ) to KO someone who are only 2 -4″ taller than him and are not that much heavier than he is ?????? If he cheated against the current drug testing agencies then its safe to say that everybody also must have cheated because everybody is also subjected to the same drug testing procedures. Why pretend is all about cleaning up sports all of a sudden ? Why wasn’t it done before ? You know why ? Because its all just BS !!
Why is it so hard to tell that Floyd is just trying to BS everybody to get support so something like this would happen ? Unbelievable !!

By: Pedro Fernandez

Pedro Fernandez — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:59:40 +0000

The LA Times is working on a story on an ex-fighter who fou Keep an eye out!ght Pac and his use of Roids!

By: Fil-Am

Fil-Am — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:24:21 +0000

How could she possibly write on something that she knows nothing about
especially something just based on false accusations, assumptions, and stupid
assumptions just because you don’t give in to a demand youre guilty ??? Does
she really think intelligent would make a conclusions based on ASSUMPTIONS ???
Even Lawyers, Doctors, Investigators, Police, FBI, any official legit authorities
dont base their conclusions on assumptions….how she made it to Harvard is
mind boggling ! Just because hes smaller in stature dont make him a weakling and be
subjected to unjustified accusations…hes fighting opponents that are similar in height and weights, whats so puzzling about that if not about bias ???

By: Ten Count

Ten Count — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:39:32 +0000

Every single pro boxer in the world is beating those tests. What’s your point?

Why not throw the same doubt and dirt on each and every single figher with hall of fame credentials who has been beating the tests? Any or all of them could have been just as juiced as you people suggest Pacquiao is and there is absolutely no way to go back and prove it either way.

PEDs in various forms have been widely available in sports & training circles since the late 1960’s and as lame as the testing is, it’s still alot more than you had in past decades. Therefore it is reasonable to suspect fighters from the 70’s & 80’s even more.

By: sher

sher — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:25:02 +0000

wow, Miss you are famous now!!!! Good for you, that’s your opinion i respect that. Delete this article and move it to your diary. Put your anger there!

By: Pedro Fernandez

Pedro Fernandez — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:53:57 +0000

Mosley beat these same tests already. That’s why they need to come up with a new system. Don’t you guys read anything outside of the Philippines?

By: alvin

alvin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:48:22 +0000

such a disgrace to harvard and journalism..an avid fan of mayweather herself..

By: Nok-nok

Nok-nok — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:09:13 +0000

Are you really from Harvard? the school where Bill Gates came from? Wow! a baseless and unproven accusation against a man who refused a test beyond the boxing commission is GUILTY of cheating? How? Why? Where’s your proof? are you really from Harvard? is this the QUALITY of people they produced in this Famous School NOW? The Quality of your writing should go to the shred machine all at once before you take along Harvard Standards with you. What a nut!

By: FIGHTfan

FIGHTfan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:14:31 +0000

First things first., Manny agreed to take 3 blood tests on the kick of the first press-con, 24 days before the fight, and right after the fight. Because he knows it would weaken him like what happened in his first Morales Fight wherein he undergoes a surprise blood test the day before their fight and loss to it and lately admit that he felt weak because of the blood test. Why? Because blood is not regenerated in 24 hours. Red blood cells are replaced by bone marrow into the circulatory system and takes more like 20+ days. These same blood cells carry hemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs throughout the body. Do You Know things like this FRANCES MARTEL? Manny Got his strength because he is not dehydrated in the welterweight division and the fact that he is doing new sets of exercises put up by his strentgh conditioning coach Alex Ariza since the David Diaz fight. Get your facts straight., You do not know anything about boxing FRANCES., You’ll only good for showbiz sh#t stuff. that’s all.

By: Mat Boan

Mat Boan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:05:44 +0000

It is always amusing to read the opinions of “fans” who have no real boxing knowledge.

Now write an article on your knowledge of astrophysics, that has a better shot of being more accurate.

By: nirdla

nirdla — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:20:31 +0000

is she really graduated from harvard? what a shame, is this kind of journalism was thought there? wow, how to react to an article that was a one sided opinion.

By: Harvardian

Harvardian — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:28:29 +0000

Oh my. Is this what Hardvard is producing now? Shame on Harvard University! Shame! Shame! Shame!

By: george bush

george bush — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:13:04 +0000

lol I bet the author is laughing her ass off by playing tricks on you people
she doesn’t really mean what she said. Its a fiction base on her imagination and it works she gets the reaction that she wanted Am i right Ms Martel rotfl!!!!!!!!

By: allen

allen — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:42:14 +0000

this lady seems know everything. a harvard graduate and yet using pacman for her own good. hitting pacman may rise her popularity. maybe a very egoistic one but she only good for nothing. a racist. a very subjective judgement.

By: Floyd Mayweather

Floyd Mayweather — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:28 +0000

Wow! I love this! We should be together

By: homer

homer — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:57:17 +0000

a woman trying to analyze boxing? LOL. Fail.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:48:09 +0000

you’ve just given harvard a bad name, for a poorly researched, sweeping, fallacious article.

By: erniepep

erniepep — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:37:39 +0000

I could not believe that Pedro would allow this biased, full of hatred, irresponsible and malicious reporting based on insinuations not facts like this Frances Martel’s article. She is a disgrace to Harvard community of intellectuals.
Pedro, please try to review articles from this joker, junk and jerk (JJJ)writer.

By: Fist of Fury

Fist of Fury — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:24:33 +0000

I just can’t comprehend how a “Harvard” educated journalist make such a sweeping and pernicious accusation and hatred of a respectable boxer without any evidence. There must be some strong motive on her vile accusation about Manny. Does she hate Filipinos? Did she get paid by Gayweather or have some special relationship? Is she afraid that Manny’s popularity and his religious conviction would adversely negate her agenda? Is she on drugs while writing this article or is she just plain stupid?

By: harvard

harvard — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:01:58 +0000

For a Harvard Graduate “this writer sure is DUMB!” maybe she needs a rocket way to be noticed that’s why she’s riding PACMAN’s comet! DuMB!

By: hamilton

hamilton — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:01:50 +0000

“He has very little discernable boxing skill.”

I agree with this one. The writer actually watched the tapes of Pacquiao before she
wrote. The only thing bother me is.. she is watching the tapes of Bobby (the brother of Manny).
This is just an indication that she knows nothing about boxing.

By: Fatel

Fatel — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:44:48 +0000

A one biased journalist.

By: PISSED

PISSED — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:25:20 +0000

THIS LADY IS THE LONG LOST DAUGHTER OF FM SR.

By: prince

prince — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:12:23 +0000

Frances Martel THE CANCER OF SPORTS WRITING

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:11:13 +0000

If you are reading these comments, you should chime in on what general boxing fans think about this article on http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=364964

By: Alden

Alden — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:08:13 +0000

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By: Arseve

Arseve — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:07:33 +0000

It is not easy to write something like what Ms. Martel wrote. I really do not believe she believes everything she wrote. Someone or something made her do it. NO NO NO she is not on drugs. Drugs does something else.

Hate? maybe, but it eats you up and its unhealthy. Someday Ms. Martel will take back some if not all these words she wrote and write a better piece, regardless of whether its a pro or anti Manny Pacquiao as long as it is unbiased.

Good luck to you Ms. Martel. BTW go visit a gym and stay there for a few hours, you’ve been to school before, we know that. Perhaps, visiting a boxing gym will enlighten you.

By: Erick

Erick — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:03:52 +0000

Talented? No!.Sickening? Yes!. Pathetic. Not even fairly articulate with her analysis relating to the sport of boxing. Somebody needs a psych.consult here.

By: blue castro

blue castro — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:36:09 +0000

i think you are just trying to get attention. Forgive me but no one should put into question a man’s dedication to a sport and an integrity that always been proven. yes. floyd tainted and raised uncertainties on how pacquiao became what he is right now. But floyd only wanted to duck pacman’s punches. Since you are there already, why dont you pay a visit in his gym instead of relying on the inputs you learned from the net.

By: PowerFIST

PowerFIST — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:33:40 +0000

Frances Martel, fresh out of Harvard, will you marry me? I think you need a good man in your life, girl. The vapor trails from the venom you wrote about Manny Pacquiao probably made Colin Seymour sick to the stomach and made his beard grow unusually faster.

After hearing and reading so much crap from Floyd Mayweather and recently from Paulie “Can’t Crack An Egg” Malignaggi, she can’t wait to drop her own unsmart bomb on Pacquiao the Munchkin (read: dwarf)with Pedro Fernandez accepting it on the first draft.

Good thing she didn’t call Pac a Winged Monkey.

By: jessie

jessie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:29:52 +0000

answer me this. Why would Manny, if he were using EPO (as staxx have claimed) agree to a blood test right after the fight? simple minds just can’t comprehend logic.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:28:01 +0000

“Pacquiao is bad for the spirit of boxing??”… stop sniffing that s-hit.. you don’t even realized what he had accomplished and contributed in this sport.. I totally agree you’re bad for the spirit of journalism.. you don’t even deserved to talk about boxing.. stop writing like a biatch.. just satisfy your lust with those family of drug users…

By: MIMIK

MIMIK — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:27:44 +0000

Mr. Pedro Fernandez please don’t hide in the name of Frances Martel!!