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Manny Pacquiao: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, Also Known As Manny Pacquiao, (Pronounce - Born

Manny Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer and politician who has won world titles in a record seven different weight divisions. He is currently the WBO Welterweight Champion and considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. Pacquiao has won numerous fighter of the year awards and has been named in the Forbes lists of highest-paid athletes and most influential celebrities. In addition to boxing, he has pursued acting, music, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, becoming the first active boxer to hold political office in the Philippines.

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Manny Pacquiao: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, Also Known As Manny Pacquiao, (Pronounce - Born

Manny Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer and politician who has won world titles in a record seven different weight divisions. He is currently the WBO Welterweight Champion and considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world. Pacquiao has won numerous fighter of the year awards and has been named in the Forbes lists of highest-paid athletes and most influential celebrities. In addition to boxing, he has pursued acting, music, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, becoming the first active boxer to hold political office in the Philippines.

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Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, also known as Manny Pacquiao, (pronouncE . born


December 17, 1978) is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is a Seven-Division
World Champion, the first boxer in history to win nine world titles in seven different weight
divisions — Flyweight, Super Bantamweight, Featherweight, Super Featherweight, Lightweight,
Light Welterweight and Welterweight divisions.[3] In addition, he is the first boxer in history to
win the lineal championship in four different weight classes — Flyweight, Featherweight, Super
Featherweight and Light Welterweight divisions.[4]

Currently, Pacquiao is the WBO World Welterweight Champion (Super Champion) and rated as
the "Number 1" pound-for-pound best boxer of the world by The Ring,[5] Sports Illustrated,[6]
ESPN,[7] NBC Sports,[8] Yahoo! Sports,[9] and About.com.[10]

Pacquiao is the former Ring World Junior Welterweight Champion, IBO World Junior
Welterweight Champion, WBC World Lightweight Champion, The Ring World Junior
Lightweight Champion, WBC World Super Featherweight Champion, The Ring World
Featherweight Champion, IBF World Junior Featherweight Champion and WBC World
Flyweight Champion. Furthermore, he is also a WBC Emeritus Champion, a WBC Diamond
Champion and a WBO Super Champion.

For his achievements, Pacquiao was named The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 2006,
2008 and 2009; the Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year in 2006, 2008
and 2009; the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2009; the HBO Sports and the Boxing Writers
Association of America "Fighter of the Decade" in 2000-2009.

Pacquiao was listed in Forbes Magazine as the World’s 6th Highest Paid Athletes with a total
annual income of 40 Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) or 2 Billion Pesos (₱2,000,000,000.00).
Tied with him on the sixth spot was the NBA player LeBron James and golfer Phil Mickelson.
He was also listed as the 57th Most Influential Celebrity in the World by Forbes Magazine and
as the Top 22 Most Influential People by Time Magazine.[11][12]

Aside from being a boxer, Pacquiao has participated in acting, music recording, and politics. On
May 10, 2010, Pacquiao was elected as Member of House of Representatives in the 15th
Congress of the Philippines representing the province of Sarangani.[13] He established the record
of being the first active boxer to become a congressman in the Philippines.[14]

Personal life
Manny Pacquiao was born on December 17, 1978 in Kibawe, Bukidnon. He is the son of Rosalio
Pacquiao and Dionesia Dapidran-Pacquiao.[15] His parents separated when he was in sixth grade,
after his mother discovered that his father was living with another woman.[15] He is the fourth
among six siblings namely: Liza Silvestre-Onding and Domingo Silvestre (from first husband of
his mother) and Isidra Pacquiao-Paglinawan, Alberto "Bobby" Pacquiao and Rogelio Pacquiao.

Pacquiao is married to Maria Geraldine "Jinkee" Jamora,[16] and they have four children namely:
Jimuel, Michael, Princess, and Queen Elizabeth. He resides in his hometown General Santos
City, South Cotabato, Philippines.[17] However, as a congressman of lone district of Sarangani, he
is officially residing in Kiamba, Sarangani, the hometown of his wife.

Pacquiao is a devout Roman Catholic.[18] Everytime he comes back from a successful fight
abroad, he attends a thanksgiving Mass in Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo,
Manila to kneel and pray.

Pacquiao is also a military reservist with the rank of Sergeant Major for the 15th Ready Reserve
Division of the Philippine Army. In his younger days, he dreamed of becoming a soldier, and
was enlisted in the military reserve force as an Army Private.[19]

Education
Manny Pacquiao completed his elementary education at Saavedra Saway Elementary School in
General Santos City, but dropped out of high school due to extreme poverty.[20] He left his home
at age 14 because his mother, who had six children, was not making enough money to support
her family.[20]
In February 2007, he took and passed a high school equivalency exam, making him a high school
graduate and eligible for college education.[21] He was awarded with highschool diploma by
Department of Education.

Pacquiao enrolled for a college degree at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in his hometown
in General Santos City where he is taking up a business management course.

On February 18, 2009, Pacquiao was conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities
(Honoris Causa) by Southwestern University (SWU) at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in
Lahug, Cebu City. The Southwestern University, through a board resolution, has chosen to grant
Manny Pacquiao the honorary degree for his exemplary performance and achievements in sports
specifically in boxing. This also includes his humanitarian acts in helping the victims of typhoon
and displaced families brought about by the insurgency problems in Mindanao.[22]

In preparation for his career as a lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Pacquiao enrolled
the Certificate Course in Development, Legislation, and Governance at the Development
Academy of the Philippines - Graduate School of Public and Development Management (DAP-
GSPDM). The modules of this 10-day course that he took up were specifically designed to help
him get oriented to his duties as congressman and to instruct him on the basics of the legislature.
[23]

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