Manny Pacquiao Adversity

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One of these examples is Manny Pacquiao, the currently ranked number one boxer in the planet. As a child, Pacquiao went through one of these forms of adversity in its harshest form. Enduring abuse from his father, hunger, and child labor made Pacquiao a natural fighter and a really resilient person against this adversity. After enduring one to many abuses from his father, Pacquiao ran away from his home and decided to try luck on his own. During this time he found a talent in boxing that was unknown to him. Having gone through the adversity made Pacquiao a natural fighter and more than able to be a boxer, which helped in his acquiring of five championships in five different weight divisions. He is a living example of how adversity brings out…show more content…
Yet I believe that people don’t truly see this or believe in this until they have been affected by adversity in their paths. Adversity can come in numerous different forms and it can be very damaging and irreparable, however if it is survived it may help as that extra boos that was needed to reach above what others have said we can or can’t do. One of these cases is the one of Fernando Montiel, a boxer from Mexico. In a championship bout that he was going to have, it was said that he had absolutely no chance of beating his opponent because Montiel’s opponent, Hozumi Hasegawa, was faster, stronger, and in general a much better fighter, and not only that Montiel was also going to fight in Japan, which is Hasegawa‘s home. However Montiel didn’t allow this negativity and other’s attitudes and thoughts to go to his head and affect him. Instead he trained harder using what others said to realize that he must be really well equipped to fight for the championship. Even though it was believed that Montiel had all the odds against him he went forward and won the championship by way of TKO(Technical Knockout) in round four. Nobody could believe what they just saw, it was a victory that wasn’t suppose to happen because not only was the Japanese a better fighter, Montiel was already old in a boxer’s perspective. Even though his adversity wasn’t physical, it came at a mental level and would’ve demoralized anybody, yet Montiel believed in himself and went for something considered unreachable for him. His adversity woke up a positive and fighter attitude that was later found to surprise the Mexican fighter himself. Would he have had positive reinforcement or “prosperous circumstances”, he may not have prepared himself as hard for the fight and may have

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