Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao

-full name: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (more commonly known as Manny Pacquiao)
-born: December 17, 1978
-age: 30
-hometown: General Santos City, Philippines
-division: welterweight
-height: 5′6½″ (169cm)
-reach: 67" (170cm)

At the age of 30, Manny is a 14-year pro—he made his debut at 16. He has been fighting at the top levels of competition and given some of the most sensational performances in the ring in recent years.

A certain future Hall of Famer, Manny was voted the "2008 Fighter of the Year" by the Boxing Writers Association of America. He also won the BWAA award in 2006, as well as The Ring's 2006 and 2008 "Fighter of the Year."

He is currently the WBO welterweight world champion, IBO and Ring Magazine light welterweight champion, and is rated by Ring Magazine as the #1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

He is also the former WBC lightweight world champion, WBC super featherweight world champion, IBF super bantamweight world champion, and WBC flyweight world champion. Furthermore, he is the former Ring Magazine featherweight and super featherweight champion.

The Filipino boxing superstar is the first boxer to win seven world titles in seven different weight divisions.In addition, he is the only boxer to win the lineal championship ("the man who beat the man") in four different weight classes. Aside from being a boxer, Pacquiao has participated in politics, acting, film-making, and music recording.

STATS

Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao stats as of November 29, 2009:

Wins: 50 (38 KOs)
Losts: 3 (2 KOs)
Draw: 2

- Total of 55 fights.

Pacman is negative for steroid use... again.

What can you say now Floyd Mayweather Sr.? How about you Pauli Malignaggi? Or you Kermit Cintron?

Manny Pacquiao is simply a great boxer, it's obvious that there are always people who are jealous, or might as well envious, of what the Pacman has achieved [and going to achieve]. There are always people who wants to pull him down with their failures, they never appreciate. As a means, these people are accusing the pound-for-pound king for using illegal drugs in keeping himself stronger and dominant against all his opponents. As Pacquiao is writing history by his record-breaking achievement, seven titles in seven weight divisions, the number of people accusing him of illegal usage of things to enhance his performance on his fights grows by number everyday. They might be wondering why Manny is capable of doing things that he had just done.

The accusations are often based on the fact that Pacquiao struggled with lighter fighters in the past, such as Juan Manuel Marquez, and is now running through world champions at a higher weight than he started at. The flaw with this argument would be that it implies that Pacquiao is a tiny fighter who bloats up like Marquez did against Mayweather.

Although he is small compared to some of his recent opponents, he isn't too small to carry the weight the right way, and has looked ripped and lean rather than bulky and sluggish as he has moved up. It may also be the case that as he has started to earn more and more money, he has simply been able to improve his training and diet, the end result of which being what he looks like now.

The biggest explanation of all these accusations however is simply jealousy by people who could not achieve what Pacquiao has in their own careers. Note how the accusers are all boxers or former boxers, all of which who have struggled with success. Pauli Malignaggi was outclassed and embarrassed against both Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto who Pacquiao beat easily. Mayweather Sr. was Hatton's trainer for his fight against Pacquiao, where an elementary error not corrected by his coaching was exploited by Freddie Roach. Kermit Cintron has no real motive to try to badmouth Pacquiao, other than that he is of course far less successful.


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