Pacquiao
"Pacquiao" redirects here. For Manny Pacquiao's brother, see Bobby
Pacquiao For the documentary, see Pacquiao: The Movie.This name uses Philippine
naming customs the middle name or maternal family name is Dapidran and
the surname or paternal family name is Pacquiao.
Emmanuel Dapidran "Manny" Pacquiao, PLH (
born December 17, 1978), is a retired Filipino world champion professional
boxer. At 32 he was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives. He has
also been involved in basketball,acting, and singing.
Pacquiao is generally considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all
time in the history of the sport as he is the first and only eight-division
world champion,in which he has won ten world titles, as well as the first to
win the lineal championship in five different weight classes.According to Forbes,
he was the 2nd highest paid athlete in the world as of 2015.
He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s (decade) by the
Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), World Boxing Council (WBC) and World
Boxing Organization(WBO). He is also a three-time The Ring and BWAA
"Fighter of the Year," winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009, and
the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2009 and 2011.
He is the longest reigning top-10 on the pound-for-pound list on the Ring.BoxRec
ranks him as the greatest Asian fighter of all-time.
He was long rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by most
sporting news and boxing websites, including ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting
Life, Yahoo! Sports, About.com, BoxRec and The Ring from his climb
to Lightweight until his losses in 2012.
Beyond boxing, Pacquiao has participated in basketball, business, acting,
music recording and politics. In May 2010, Pacquiao was elected to the House of
Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines, representing the
province of Sarangani. He was re-elected in 2013 to the 16th Congress of the
Philippines.
Pacquiao, while mostly focused on being a boxer and a congressman, is listed
as the head coach of the basketball team Mahindra Enforcers. He was also
drafted onto the team as 11th overall pick in the first round of the 2014 PBA
draft, making him the oldest rookie drafted, as well as the shortest player and the first
dual-sport athlete in the Philippine Basketball Association.He played 7 minutes
of one of the team's games. Pacquiao also owns a team in the PBA Developmental
League (PBA D-League), the MP Hotel Warriors, and partnered with Powervit, a
Filipino vitamin brand, to form a team in the ASEAN Basketball League, the Pacquiao
Powervit Pilipinas Aguilas, which is named after him. However, Pacquiao
reportedly stopped giving support to the Aguilas and left the team ownership
solely to the formerly team co-owner Dick Balajadia, and so the team was
renamed Pilipinas MX3 Kings.
