Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey Boxing Fight Today

All you Filipinos out there: today is the day!

It has been a heck of a busy week for all Pacquiao fans, especially for the Filipinos of North Texas or the DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington) metropolitan area. The three previous days, Filipinos came to watch Pacquiao train and have their shirts, caps, gloves, jackets, and what-have-you’s signed by Pacman himself. Of course, Coach Freddie Roach, and Buboy among others were there to sign as well. It was indeed a fun and memorable moment for all my fellow Filipinos.

Yesterday, we came to watch the weigh-in of all the boxers to fight tonight. We got to see Bob Arum, Jerry Jones, Michael Buffer and many other fighters who just came to visit and watch this memorable event. It’s the first time that a boxing fight is happening at our $1.2 billion-Cowboy Stadium. LOL! I’m a proud Texan. I’ll post more about it after the fight.

Anyway, Filipinos have gone crazy with all the Manny Pacquiao items being sold… like I said… the shirts, jackets, caps, gloves, and even the limited Nike PacMan shoes ($110). The shoes look so nice. Three of our friends here already got theirs. They said it’s only going to be released here in Texas. There were a lot of Filipinos in the mall, buying Manny Pacquiao memorabilia. Some Filipinos were buying $100-600 worth of goodies. OMG!!! Can you imagine??? While we were there, a group of Filipinos from Chicago were buying a ton of shirts ($28) and jackets ($70). It was crazy! Heck if we have boat loads of money I would probably do the same. But since we’ve had a lot of expenses lately from restoring the home, buying decor and furniture, hosting a party, just renewed our car insurance, and having family and friends over among others – we are officially broke. LOL! And our tax return hasn’t even arrived yet. ARGH! But anyway, I got Hubby a shirt for the fight…

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And the rest of the goodies being sold at Champs (Parks Mall, Arlington, TX)… sorry for the blurry photos… they were sneaky shots from my iPhone.

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