Rogie Roman

MANNY ISN'T DONE YET

At 46, going toe-to-toe for 12 rounds with a 30-year-old champ in his physical prime? That’s not a draw.

At 30, Manny ended careers. At 30, Barrios couldn’t end Manny.

A defending champion should impose his will. Watch the body language. Barrios was cautious, tentative, calculating. You know who fights like that? Someone who fought not to lose.

Pacquiao fought to win, pressing forward, risking counters, cutting angles, creating exchanges.

There comes a moment in a fight where myth touches skin, and hits back harder than whispers that it's over.

And there's the thing that happens in your gut when a fighter still owns the moment, the sound the crowd makes when they know the bell has not rung yet for Manny.