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I am a Filipino so I would be interested in the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao versus the Mexican sensation Eric Morales boxing match that happened just yesterday. Being here in the United States, I have no television but I have a USB TV box hooked up to my PC, but then again, this boxing match is a pay-per-view match and I was not even hooked up to any cable or sattelite TV provider. So the best I can do is just use what ever I have.

I know Internet Relay Chat IRC would be the best and just enter the #boxing channel, but I have no IRC software installed and decided to use the chatrooms in instant messaging (IM) softwares. I chose Yahoo! Messenger (YM) since this is where I see more people active in my circle of friends. Yahoo took out their user-defined chatrooms already so all chatrooms are pre-defined by Yahoo. I went into the Sports and Recreation category and went into the room In The Ring Room 5. There were a bunch of Filipinos and a few people who were in favor of Mexican Boxer Eric Morales.

A guy with YM ID glennmatienzo was kind enough to use his PC microphone and placed it by the TV speakers as the chatters who most did not have TVs were happy hearing the fight as all chatters with TVs were explaining what was going on. One of the active chatters was empiresports2004 who was giving details of the fight by chatting and was highlighting all of Eric Morales’ shots more than Manny Paquaio’s points since this chatter was also from Latin America as he has mentioned.

One of my favorite Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) websites, Sherdog, had an online forum with some dude named boooya777 was updating the forum after every round placing a summary of what was happening. And I was also simutaneously checking the ESPN round-by-round update on their own webpage that was also updated after every round.

While reading everything and listening, I felt like Manny Paquiao will lose since the first few rounds, the unofficial score cards on ESPN were in favor of Eric Morales. Then in the rounds from 6 and above, ESPN scores them in favor of Manny Pacquiao. But I still felt Manny Pacquiao can still loose since the points were just 1 point ahead for every round and the first five rounds were like Eric Morales ahead by 1 point every round. And it was common to see a post in the chatroom saying that the fight was close, but Eric Morales would do a few 1-2 punch combinations but would hit Manny Pacquiao, while Manny Pacquiao was doing flurries but not landing them all. Some chat and forum postings said they were useless.

But once it reached round 10, the YM chatroom was filled of people with microphones doing voice chats screaming, saying Manny Pacquiao won by TKO. I asked how it was in the Philippines, and it was still at round 1 and after every round was a bunch of TV commericals.

I enjoyed how it was going, but nothing beats TV if I just rely on reading and hearing, but I can wait for the videos to be posted on Manny Pacquiao’s website after a month maybe.

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