However, there are also few people who know about Manny Pacquiao, who is not only the most famous boxing boxing, but also the pride of the whole nation.
Pacquiao has a miserable childhood
Pacquiao's parents divorced when he was 6th grade, when his father had a new love affair.
At the age of 14, Pacquiao moved to Manila and worked at the construction site, slept on the street and had to choose between keeping money for himself, or giving it to his mother.
He had to learn how to fight from a young age, because he knew he could not rely on his family.
Come to Boxing from a very young age
At the age of 12, Pacquiao was taken by his uncle to Boxing. He felt impressed with this sport after witnessing Mike Tyson beat James Douglas in 1990.
After 6 months of training at home and trained by his uncle, Pacquiao went to the park to challenge opponents. At the age of 15, when he arrived in Manila, he became a potential young boxer in southern Philippines and had his first professional match in 1995, at the age of 16.
The only person won the world championship over 4 decades
Manny Pacquiao has the first world championship in 1998, when holding the WBC belt. By the 2000s, he held many different championships in the super -chicken class, the super -haired class of WBC and IBF. By 2010, he kept the semi -Chinese WBO belt and in 2021 he won the semi -class WBA belt.
The influential boxer reaches out to the world's largest martial arts world
Pacman was one of the most important groups of 100 people voted by Times magazine in 2009. Forbes also listed him in the group of 100 most influential people in the Philippines.
Currently, Pacquiao is a politician and has seats in the government system.
Break 6 world records – Guinness
In these 6 records, the most impressive is that Pacquiao became the only boxing athlete to win 15 consecutive victories in different weight classes and the oldest people ever won the world championship.
Pacquiao is also the one who won the most titles in the different weight classes of Boxing, and was the one who held a flag for the Philippine sports delegation at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, though not the Olympics.
One of the best money -making athletes in the world
Forbes showed that Pacquiao earned about 42 million US dollars within 1 year, from the second half of 2008 to June 2009, and US $ 42 million from the second half of 2009 to June 2010, becoming the world's 6th best money -making martial artist at that time.
Once a player and coach of a basketball club
In the 2014-15 season, Pacquiao played and directed at Kia Motors Club, belonging to the Philippines basketball tournament. In the match against Blackwater Elite in 2016, Pacquiao scored the first 3 points of his career.
Pursuing political career
In 2010, Pacquiao became a candidate, representing Sarangani province. In the 2016 election, Pacquiao became a senator. In 2020, he became the presidential candidate of the PDP-Laban Party, but unfortunately failed.
Used to produce music, join the army
Pacquiao has produced 2 music albums and created a background music for himself. In addition, he climbed to the position of colonel at the Philippine reserve military force.
He even acted as an actor, director and signed a contract with ABS-CBN.