Manny Pacquiao, Kobe Bryant slam dunk Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Jekyll and Hyde had nothing on Mean Manny Pacquiao.

The Pinoy Idol plays the nice guy role convincingly away from his office but, as it turns out, he really knows how to hurt a guy even outside the ring.

NEWS FLASH: Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr., still nursing those sore and not spare ribs which were given a pasting allegedly by some Irish amateur kid, has suffered another injury.

Initial reports are sketchy but reports have it Mayweather is having his head examined so that a team of medical experts can diagnose and then properly treat his newest ailment.

“Massive wound to his superego,” said Doctor Larry Fine.

“Money May Pay The Hospital Bell has an ego which is approximately the size of the combined land mass of Brazil plus Texas,” said Doctor Moe Howard.

“Does this guy have medical insurance because I’m not looking forward to getting stiffed on my bill like Pacman stiffed Ricky Hatton?” asked attending if not attentive Doctor Curley Fine.

I asked the medical trio if Mayweather will recover from this super ego damage in order to fulfill his Sept. 19 once delayed bout against Little Old Whinemaker (“I beat Manny!”) Juan Manuel Marquez.

They replied in unison and simultaneously: “Mayweather will be fine!”

Then they began giving each other eye pokes and noogies and the like. If you didn’t know better, you’d think they were comedians or just Three Stooges.

At this point in my daily ramble, you join Professor Mumblesmore and Bernie Vee in saying, “Get to the point, Marley man, get to the point, how did Pacquiao render this serious injury to PBF?”

I hear your cry and thus I will now reveal.

It is a severe case of money lust and sponsor jealously.

I mean here is Pacquiao jetting off to Los Angeles, big high roller joining a NBA champion high roller, for a Nike commercial shoot.

Then, soon after Pacquiao commutes back to Manila (what’s MP’s air mileage, anyway, he must have numerous free trips earned), Kobe Bryant comes to the Philippine capital as part of an Asian tour.

Kobe’s tour will make stops in six cities:

July 21 - Manila
July 22 - Singapore
July 23- Taipei
July 24- Hong Kong
July 25- Shanghai
July 26- Chengdu

Persistent rumors out of Beaverton have it that Kobester is getting more than expenses and meal money for this Asian tour which is designed to sell all Nike product, especially sneakers and those marvelous but high priced Manny Pacquiao shoes and shirts.

Mayweather feels like a jilted lover. He may be singing that “Billie Jean is not my lover… “

I’ve cracked the Mayweather code and “Billie Jean” means Nike.

You see Mayweather “Remembers The Time” when he, and before him, fellow American ring superstar Roy Jones were the only boxers on the planet that Nike had time and money for.

In fact, Mayweather adviser Al Haymon delivered Mayweather’s mismatch against weathered Sharmba Mitchell to the Rose Garden in Portland as some kind of a tie-in to the Nike corporate cats.

I must say the Rose Garden has smelled sweeter on other nights as the official, puffed up attendance figure was a knee slapping 7,000.

It was more likely half that. You could have shot Uzis across the arena without hitting a living person.

Amazingly, HBO forked over nearly $4 million for such a fight. That kind of money buys a whole lot sneakers.

It seems that Mayweather’s Nike connection went away with his retirement.

That was the period when many idiots fell hook, line and sinker for the Honest Rasslers story that Floyd was getting $20 million for his momentous match against The Big Show.

Some people just can’t discern a script from a prescription if you know what I mean.

Nike may have been happy with its affiliation with Mayweather, I don’t know. Maybe he has some continuing relationship or his comeback will spark one.

But Nike looks for world domination and their Asian conquest is led by Kobe and Manny.

That’s some back court, a prodigious pair of point guards.

First, the ribs and now Floyd’s feelings have been hurt.

I just hope Mayweather can bite down now and answer the bell come Sept. 19.

Which reminds me, how come Shane Mosley is peddling Ice Link watches but not Nike products?

What is he, chopped liver?

Perhaps we must refer the whole issue to Cricket Examiner Bill Belew, who is currently getting more hits than Pete Rose on a batting binge.

Brother Belew will know how to handle such a sticky wicket.

Marquez may not realize it but he is scheduled to fight a seriously wounded man.

Here's an undefeated fighter with sore ribs, sore pockets and now a damaged psyche.

I feel L'il Floyds more than L'il pain.

Demanding came the IRS. 

Crack went the ribs.

Swoosh went a big Nike role to Manny.

You don't have to be a meterorologist to give the current Mayweather:

Extensive pain.

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