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Manny Pacquiao...........PACMAN I just watched boxing this afternoon and so happy Mr. Pacman won. People here are very happy because the elected congressman and very generous boxer would extend his hands again to do a lot of projects for our people from the winnings he will have. He is one of the most highly admired people in our country. He grew up in poverty, persevered to make a living and he made boxing as his bread and butter. Finally he is now at the peak of success. But through his past life he had, he extended his hand to the people. Anyway I read again his biography and here it is......................... Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, born December 17, 1978 is a Filipino professional boxer, politician, actor, and singer. He is the first and only eight-division world champion,[6] in which he has won ten world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. According to Forbes, he was the 14th highest paid athlete in the world as of 2013. 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 (WB  . 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 current WBO welterweight champion[10] and is currently ranked number four on The Ring pound-for-pound list. He was long rated as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world by some 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 focussed on being a boxer and a congressman, is listed as the head coach of the basketball team Kia Sorentos. At 36, he also played 7 minutes of one of the team's games and is thus a professional basketball player. He was drafted onto the team that he coaches as 11th overall on the first round of the 2014 PBA draft by the Kia Sorentos, making him as the oldest rookie drafted,[15] as well as the shortest player and the first dual-sport athlete in the Philippine Basketball Association.[16] Pacquiao also owns a team in the PBA Developmental League (PBA D-League), the MP Hotel Warriors. 
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Good example of what the power of the mind and the drive within the will can achieve, taking the power of fight into the right arena(s), after coming from the dirt floor of challenge and rising up to embrace the cause of people and the care for humanitarian good.
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