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Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao Sr. (; born December17, 1978) is a Filipino politician and former
professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...
. Nicknamed "PacMan", he is regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. He served as a
Senator of the Philippines The Senate of the Philippines ( Filipino: ''Senado ng Pilipinas'', also ''Mataas na Kapulungan ng Pilipinas'' or "upper chamber") is the upper house of Congress of the bicameral legislature of the Philippines with the House of Representatives a ...
from 2016 to 2022. Pacquiao is the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing and has won twelve major world titles. He was the first boxer to win the
lineal championship In combat sports where champions are decided by a challenge, the lineal championship of a weight class is a world championship title held initially by an undisputed champion and subsequently by a fighter who defeats the reigning champion in a mat ...
in five different weight classes, the first boxer to win major world titles in four of the eight "glamour divisions" (
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,
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,
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, and
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), and is the only boxer to hold world championships across four decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s). In July 2019, Pacquiao became the oldest welterweight world champion in history at the age of 40, and the first boxer in history to become a recognized four-time welterweight champion after defeating
Keith Thurman Keith Fitzgerald Thurman Jr. (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 2015 to 2019 (promoted to Super champion in 2017), and the WBC title fr ...
to win the WBA (Super) welterweight title. As of 2015, Pacquiao's fights had generated $1.2 billion in revenue from his 25 pay-per-view bouts. According to ''
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'', he was the second highest paid athlete in the world in 2015.The World's Highest-Paid Athletes
. Forbes.com (2013–06). Retrieved on February 22, 2014.
Pacquiao entered politics in 2010 when he was elected as the
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of Sarangani. He held this post for six years until he was elected and assumed office as a senator in 2016. He became the president of his party
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in 2020 (which is disputed since 2021). On September 19, 2021, Pacquiao officially declared his candidacy for
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in the 2022 Philippine presidential election, he ended up losing to Bongbong Marcos. Outside of boxing and politics, Pacquiao was the head coach and a player for the
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team Kia/Mahindra for three seasons from 2014 to 2017, before founding the semi-professional
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines. History Manny Pacquiao launched the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League on August 29, 2017, starting off as a semi-professional lea ...
. He has also starred in films and has presented television shows. In music, he has released multiple PARI-
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albums and songs; his cover of "
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" peaked at 19 in the United States on '' Billboards
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chart after a performance on ''
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''. He is also an
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preacher, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.


Early life and education

Pacquiao was born in
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and raised in General Santos, Philippines. He is the son of Rosalio Pacquiao and actress Dionisia Dapidran. His parents separated when he was in sixth grade, after his father had an affair. He is the fourth of six siblings, one of whom, Alberto "Bobby" Pacquiao, is also a politician and former professional boxer. At the age of 14, Pacquiao moved to
Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...
and lived on the streets, worked as a construction worker and had to pick between eating or sending money to his mother. Pacquiao completed his elementary education at Saavedra Saway Elementary School in General Santos City, but dropped out of high school due to extreme and abject poverty. In February 2007, Pacquiao took and passed a high school equivalency exam, and was awarded with a high school diploma by the Department of Education.


Boxing career


Overview

Manny Pacquiao has an amateur record of 60–4 and a record of 62–8–2 as a professional, with 39 wins by knockout. Boxing historian
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ranked Pacquiao as the greatest southpaw fighter of all time. In 2020, Pacquiao topped the
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's list of best boxers of the 21st century. Pacquiao made history by being the first boxer ever to win world titles in eight weight divisions, having won twelve major world titles, as well as being the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes. Pacquiao is also the first boxer in history to win major world titles in four of the original eight weight classes of boxing, also known as the "glamour divisions" (flyweight, featherweight, lightweight and welterweight), and the first boxer ever to become a four-decade world champion, winning world championships across four decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s). Pacquiao was long rated as the best active boxer in the world, pound for pound, by most sporting news and boxing websites, including ESPN, ''
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'', '' Sporting Life'',
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, BoxRec and '' The Ring'', beginning from his climb to lightweight until his losses in 2012. He is also the longest reigning top-ten active boxer on ''The Rings pound for pound list from 2003-2016. Pacquiao has generated approximately 20.4 million in pay-per-view (PPV) buys and $1.3 billion in revenue from 26 PPV-bouts. Per Forbes, he was the world's second highest paid athlete in 2015. Pacquiao signed with
Bob Arum Robert Arum (born December 8, 1931) is an American lawyer and boxing promoter. He is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. Prior to becoming a boxing promoter, Arum was employed as an attorn ...
's
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from 2015 to 2017 and
Al Haymon Al Haymon (born April 21, 1955) is an American businessman and boxing manager. He was the manager of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and has won the Boxing Writers of America Manager of the Year Award five times. Early life Haymon was raised in Cleveland, ...
's
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(PBC) promotion on 2018 alongside Paradigm Sports on 2020. On September 29, 2021, Pacquiao announced his retirement from boxing, in a post on social media.


Early years

Pacquiao was introduced to boxing at the age of 12 by his maternal uncle Sardo Mejia. According to his autobiography, Pacquiao said watching Mike Tyson's defeat of James "Buster" Douglas in 1990 with his Uncle Sardo as an experience that, "changed my life forever." Mejia began training his nephew in a makeshift home gym. After 6 months of training, Pacquiao began boxing in a park in General Santos eventually traveling to other cities to fight higher-ranked opponents. By age 15, he was considered the best junior boxer in the southern Philippines and he moved to
Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...
. In January 1995, at the age of 16, he made his professional boxing debut as a junior flyweight. Pacquiao stated of his early years, "''Many of you know me as a legendary boxer, and I'm proud of that. However, that journey was not always easy. When I was younger, I became a fighter because I had to survive. I had nothing. I had no one to depend on except myself. I realized that boxing was something I was good at, and I trained hard so that I could keep myself and my family alive''." On December 4, 1998, at the age of 19, he won his first major title, the World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight title.


Notable fights

Over the course of his decorated career, Pacquiao has defeated 22 world champions:
Chatchai Sasakul Chatchai Sasakul ( th, ฉัตรชัย สาสะกุล; ; born February 5, 1970) is a Thai former professional boxer who competed between 1991 to 2008. He held the WBC flyweight title from May 1997 to December 1998. Aside from being ...
,
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba Lehlohonolo Benedict Ledwaba (27 July 1971 – 2 July 2021) was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006, and held the IBF super bantamweight title from 1999 to 2001. Ledwaba died from COVID-19 on 2 July 2021, at age 4 ...
,
Jorge Eliécer Julio Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha (born April 4, 1969) is a Colombian former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a two-time bantamweight champion, having held the WBA title from 1992 to 1993 and the WBO title from 1998 to 2000. ...
,
Marco Antonio Barrera Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2011. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the WBO junior featherweight title twice between ...
(twice),
Érik Morales Erik Isaac Morales Elvira (; born September 1, 1976) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He is the first Mexico-born boxer in history to win world titles in four different weight classes, having held the WBC ...
(twice),
Óscar Larios Óscar Larios (born 1 November 1976) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2009. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC super bantamweight title from 2002 to 2004 and the WBC featherweight ...
,
Jorge Solís Jorge Iván Solís Pérez (born 23 October 1979) is a Mexican former professional boxer. He is a former holder of various minor and regional titles including, the Jalisco State Featherweight title, WBC Latin America title, Mexican Super Ban ...
,
Juan Manuel Márquez Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez (born August 23, 1973) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2014. He is known for defeating Manny Pacquiao. He is the third Mexican boxer (after Érik Morales and Jorge Arce) to become ...
(twice), David Díaz,
Oscar De La Hoya Oscar De La Hoya ( , ; born on February 4, 1973) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. His accolades include winning 11 world titles in six weight classes, including the lineal championshi ...
,
Ricky Hatton Richard John Hatton (born 6 October 1978) is a British former professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and has since worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships at l ...
,
Miguel Cotto Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29, 1980) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He is a multiple-time world champion, and the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes, ...
,
Joshua Clottey Joshua Clottey (born October 6, 1977) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2019, and held the IBF welterweight title from 2008 to 2009. As an amateur, he competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. At the peak of his car ...
,
Antonio Margarito Antonio Margarito Montiel (born March 18, 1978) is a Mexican-American former professional boxer who competed between 1994 and 2017. He held multiple welterweight world championships, including the WBO title from 2002 to 2007, the IBF title in ...
,
Shane Mosley Shane Mosley (born September 7, 1971), often known by his nickname "Sugar" Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the IBF l ...
,
Brandon Ríos Brandon Lee Ríos (born April 29, 1986) is an American professional boxer. He held the WBA lightweight title in 2011 and has challenged once for the WBO welterweight title in 2015. Nicknamed "Bam Bam", Ríos was known for his aggressive pressur ...
,
Timothy Bradley Timothy Ray Bradley Jr. (born August 29, 1983) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2016. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBC light welterweight title twice between 2008 a ...
(twice),
Chris Algieri Christopher Mark Algieri (born March 2, 1984) is an American professional boxer and former kickboxer. In boxing he held the WBO junior welterweight title in 2014 and challenged for the WBO welterweight title later that year; in kickboxing he wa ...
,
Jessie Vargas Jessie Vargas (born May 10, 1989) is an American professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA (Regular) and IBO super lightweight titles in 2014, and the WBO welterweight title in 2016. As of Aug ...
,
Lucas Matthysse Lucas Martín Matthysse (; born 27 September 1982) is an Argentine former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2018. He held the WBA (Regular) welterweight title in 2018 and the WBC interim super lightweight title from 2012 to 2013. Ma ...
, Adrien Broner and
Keith Thurman Keith Fitzgerald Thurman Jr. (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the WBA title from 2015 to 2019 (promoted to Super champion in 2017), and the WBC title fr ...
. Pacquiao's most recent bout was against
Yordenis Ugás Yordenis Ugás Hernández (born 14 July 1986) is a Cuban professional boxer. He held the WBA (Super) welterweight title from 2021 to April 2022, having previously held the WBA (Regular) title from 2020 until being elevated to Super champion. ...
in August 2021. Pacquiao also participated in an exhibition match against former world champion
Jesus Salud Jesus Salud (born 3 May 1963) is a Filipino-born American former professional boxer. Originally from Sinait in the Philippines, he resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. He won the WBA super bantamweight title by disqualification on December 11, 1989, i ...
in August 2002 which he won.


Ranking and awards

Pacquiao was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s by the
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(BWAA),
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(WBC), and
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(WBO). In 2006, 2008, and 2009, he was awarded ''Ring'' magazine, ''
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'' and BWAA's
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. BoxRec ranks him as the greatest Asian fighter of all time. In 2016, Pacquiao ranked No. 2 on
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's list of top pound for pound boxers of the past 25 years and he ranks No.5 in
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's ranking of the greatest
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boxers of all time. Manny Pacquiao is a holder of six Guinness Book World Records. He has the most consecutive boxing world title fight victories at different weights at 15, between 2005 and 2011; he is named the oldest welterweight boxing world champion when he claimed the WBA Welterweight title aged 40 years 215 days on July 20, 2019; he has the most boxing world titles won in different weight divisions with eight, when he defeated Antonio Margarito (USA) to win the WBC Super Welterweight title on November 13, 2010. He has also held sanctioned belts in the WBC Flyweight, Super Featherweight and Lightweight divisions, plus The Ring Featherweight, IBF Super Bantamweight, IBO and The Ring Light Welterweight and WBO Welterweight. He recorded the highest selling pay-per-view boxing match in a Welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on May 2, 2015, and the highest revenue earned from ticket sales for a boxing match from ticket sales title fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on May 2, 2015. Pacquiao became the first Filipino Olympic non-participant to be Team Philippines' flag-bearer during the August 8 opening ceremonies of the
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at the Beijing National Stadium. Swimmer Miguel Molina, 2005 Southeast Asian Games' Best Male Athlete, yielded the honor to Pacquiao, upon the request of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the national sports officials on the
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. He had the opportunity to compete in the
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in
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, when professional boxers under the age of 40 were allowed to compete in the games for the first time. However Pacquiao, decided not to compete.


Earnings

''Forbes'' listed Pacquiao as the world's equal sixth highest paid athlete, with a total of $40 million or 2 billion pesos from the second half of 2008 to the first half of 2009. Tied with him on the sixth spot was NBA player
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and golfer
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. Pacquiao was again included in ''Forbes list of highest paid athletes from the second half of 2009 to the first half of 2010; he was ranked eighth with an income of $42 million. Pacquiao also won the 2009
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for the Best Fighter category, beating fellow boxer Shane Mosley and Brazilian
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fighters Lyoto Machida and Anderson Silva.Pacquiao is 2009 ESPY Awards' Best Fighter –
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reported that Pacquiao was one of the two top earning athletes for 2010, alongside American
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player
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. According to the magazine's annual salary report of athletes, Pacquiao earned $32 million (approximately PhP 1.38 billion) for his two 2010 boxing matches against Clottey and Margarito.


Basketball career

On April 17, 2014, Pacquiao, a passionate basketball fan, announced his intention to join the
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as the playing coach of Kia Motors Basketball team, an incoming expansion team for the PBA's 2014–15 season. As the team's head coach, he asked other teams to not draft him before Kia, and picked himself 11th overall in the first round of the 2014 PBA draft, being the oldest rookie to be ever drafted in the league's history. Pacquiao played basketball as part of his training before his matches and prior to his PBA stint, Pacquiao was named an honorary member of the Boston Celtics and established friendships with Steph Curry and basketball Hall of Famers Kobe Bryant,
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, and
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. NBA player
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cites Pacquiao as a "legend" & visited him along with
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at training. On September 4, 2014, Pacquiao trained with the
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at their training facility in preparation for his PBA stint. On February 18, 2015, Pacquiao played briefly and scored one point when the Sorento pulled an 95–84 upset against Purefoods that tapped former NBA player
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as their import for the conference, when asked about playing against him he said that Pacquiao as a basketball player was a "mockery of the game and a joke". Orton was fined by PBA commissioner Chito Salud and was replaced after a few days. On October 25, 2015, Pacquiao made his first field goal in the PBA in a 108–94 loss against the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters. On August 21, 2016, Pacquiao scored a career-high four points in a 97–88 victory against the
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, also sinking the first three-point field goal in his career. He appeared rarely in the succeeding seasons as he was focused on other commitments. In 2017, Pacquiao founded the
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines. History Manny Pacquiao launched the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League on August 29, 2017, starting off as a semi-professional lea ...
, a prominent semi-professional league in the
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. In 2018, although being rumored to transfer to Blackwater, Pacquiao officially announced his retirement from the league after playing just ten games in three seasons and scoring less than fifteen career points. He played one game for the Senate Defenders in a televised-amateur league and scored 12 points on that same year. In 2019, he announced that he is "planning to own an NBA team" after boxing retirement.


Political career


House of Representatives (2010–2016)

On February 12, 2007, Pacquiao announced his campaign for a seat in the
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to represent the 1st District of South Cotabato province running as a candidate of the
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faction under
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. Pacquiao, said he was persuaded to run by the local officials of General Santos, hoping he would act as a bridge between their interests and the national government. Ultimately Pacquiao was forced to run under the
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(KAMPI), a pro-Arroyo political party by the courts. Pacquiao was defeated in the election by incumbent Rep.
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of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), who said, "More than anything, I think, people weren't prepared to lose him as their boxing icon." In preparation for his political career in the Filipino House of Representatives, Pacquiao enrolled in the Certificate Course in Development, Legislation, and Governance at the Development Academy of the Philippines – Graduate School of Public and Development Management (DAP-GSPDM). On November 21, 2009, Pacquiao announced that he would run again for a congressional seat, but this time in Sarangani province, the hometown of his wife Jinkee. In May 2010, Pacquiao was elected to the House of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines, representing the province of Sarangani. He scored a landslide victory over the wealthy and politically well-entrenched Chiongbian clan that had been in power in the province for more than thirty years. Pacquiao got 120,052 votes while his opponent for the seat, Roy Chiongbian, got 60,899 votes. In 2010, Pacquiao made a speech on human trafficking that earned praise. However, he also received criticism for coming out as uninformed during a discussion of the contentious reproductive health bill that same year. In 2013, he was re-elected to the 16th Congress of the Philippines. He ran unopposed. Additionally, his wife, Jinkee, was also elected as vice-governor of Sarangani, while his younger brother, Rogelio lost his bid as congressman. Because of other commitments, Pacquiao only attended one Congress session on the congress' final leg and was criticized for being the top absentee among lawmakers. Pacquiao filed a total of less than 20 bills in six years, with zero of them passing beyond committee.


Senate (2016–2022)

On October 5, 2015, Pacquiao formally declared that he was running for senator under the
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(UNA) party of vice-president Jejomar Binay. On May 19, 2016, Pacquiao was formally elected as a senator by the Commission on Elections. Pacquiao garnered over 16 million votes, landing at 7th place. Pacquiao earlier aligned himself with the Duterte government. He facilitated on September 18, 2016, the ouster of Leila de Lima (a Duterte critic) from the chairmanship of the Senate Justice committee and criticized de Lima's presentation three days later of an alleged member of the
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. In another Senate hearing, Pacquiao defended then-Davao City Vice Mayor
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from allegations of having a part, along with the vice mayor's alleged drinking buddy Charlie Tan and Kenneth Dong, in a 2017 seized 6.4-billion shipment of illegal drugs from Xiamen, China into the Philippines. As of 2018, Pacquiao has filed a total of 31 Senate bills during the 17th Congress. And in a bill filed alongside Senator
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and
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, he backed the return of
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. In June 2019, the Philippine Senate released a data showing Pacquiao as having the worst attendance record among all senators in the 17th Congress, reflecting a struggle Pacquiao had since he was a congressman. Despite the poor attendance, he still managed to enact four laws from the bills he filed. During the
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in 2020, Pacquiao worked with Alibaba Group co-founder
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to help bring to the Philippines 50,000 COVID-19 test kits through their respective charity foundations. In December 2020, Pacquiao became acting party president of PDP-Laban, the ruling political party, when
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resigned. However, the position will eventually become disputed between Pacquiao and Energy Secretary
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.
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's faction through a vote decided that Pacquiao is no longer party president of PDP-Laban on July 17. Melvin Matibag, the deputy secretary-general of PDP-Laban, defended the vote, saying it was organized because the term limits of the party's officials had already expired. Pacquiao is still regarded by his faction as party president. In May 2021, Senator Pacquiao filed a bill proposing to create the Philippine Boxing and Combat Sports Commission. The move, however, was lambasted by Senator
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who criticized the timing of the proposal in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Pacquiao earlier already tried filing the bill during the 17th Congress when Pacquiao and Senator Franklin Drilon made headlines after Pacquiao called out the latter and senior legislator to use his "common sense" during an interpellation about the topic while Pacquiao was apparently being coached by his advisers after struggling to answer Drilon. In May 2022, Pacquiao called for the "speedy release" of fellow Senator Leila De Lima, who was detained for five years now, after witnesses against De Lima retracted their testimony. Pacquiao had earlier been vocal about De Lima's supposed links to a purported drug lord, Kerwin Espinosa, an allegation that led to De Lima's arrest and detention.


2022 presidential campaign

As early as June 2020, Pacquiao's former promoter
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declared that the senator expressed that he will run in 2022 in a conversation with him uttering "Bob, I’m gonna run in 2022 and, when I win, I want you there at my inauguration.'” Speculations quickly spread around a possible Pacquiao run for president, backed by his own expression of interest in a presidential bid. In June 2021, he expressed belief that Duterte's response towards China's claims in the South China Sea was lacking. Duterte rebuked Pacquiao for the statement, saying the latter lacked knowledge in foreign policy. The President also responded to a claim attributed to Pacquiao that the Duterte administration is more corrupt than those by his predecessors; Duterte challenged Pacquiao to name certain individuals or agencies, otherwise he will launch a negative campaign against the senator in the 2022 elections. A month after being asked about the possibility of him running in the postgame interview after losing his final boxing match against Yordenis Ugas, Pacquiao officially announced his presidential bid on September 19, 2021, during the National Assembly of the PDP-Laban, organized by his faction. On October 1, he formally registered his candidacy under the Cebu-based party
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. This was in accordance with the "MP3 Alliance" established by PDP Laban under Pacquiao's faction with PROMDI, and the People's Champ Movement. Cusi in response to Pacquiao's filing of candidacy under PROMDI decided that he is no longer a member of PDP-Laban. His platforms include solving corruption and a promise of nationwide housing projects for the poor. Since the campaign period started on February, he had struggled in the presidential surveys with low ratings ranking fourth to fifth among the candidates, dropping to as low as 1.8 percent on the March 2022 poll by Publicus Asia and 8 percent on
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with his disapproval rating going up. In March 2022, amid recent news about frontrunner Bongbong Marcos unsettled tax dues amounting to 200 billion pesos, Pacquiao openly challenged Marcos to a one-on-one debate and made remarks against critics saying "he's not intelligent enough to be president" saying that "the most dumb in this country are those who are going to vote for a plunderer". Pacquiao only placed third in the election and later conceded to
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, who won by a landslide.


Entertainment career


Acting and hosting career

With growing fame, Pacquiao became a celebrity and was obligated to start his acting and hosting career with
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s on
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shows. He signed a contract as an actor & host with
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short-after. In December 2005, Pacquiao took his first lead role in Violett Films' ''Lisensyadong Kamao'' (Licensed Fist). The film is titled so because (according to director Tony Bernal), being a boxer, Pacquiao is licensed to use his hands. Upon the expiration of his contract with ABS-CBN, Pacquiao signed with
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as an actor and host in September 2007. A few months after, he taped his first episode of the network's infotainment show ''
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''. His other projects with the network included ''
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'' and the sitcom ''
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'', where he appeared as
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's onscreen loveteam, and in which his mother, Dionisia, also appeared. He also hosted his own game show
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where he gave out prizes to his audience. In 2008, Pacquiao starred with
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and
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in '' Anak ng Kumander'' (Child of a Commander). The movie was not a commercial success and was panned by critics. Pacquiao starred in the superhero/comedy film entitled '' Wapakman'', which was released on December 25, 2009, as an entry to the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. Like his previous films, ''Wapakman'' was not commercially successful. In 2020, he was cast to portray General Miguel Malvar in the upcoming biopic film '' Malvar: Tuloy ang Laban'' about the Philippine hero, which gained mixed reactions from the Malvar family. Gabriel, grandson of General Malvar's youngest child Pablo, worries that Pacquiao's fame might overshadow his movie character. While Villegas, son of Malvar's daughter Isabel, supports the casting.


Music career

Pacquiao recorded songs to use as entrance music for his fights and released them on two albums that were certified platinum locally in the Philippines. Most of the Tagalog songs of Pacquiao were composed by
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who wrote Pacquiao's biggest hit and primarily known song "Para Sayo ang Laban Na 'To". On November 3, 2009, Pacquiao covered "
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", originally by
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, on ''
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'', marking his first singing performance on American TV. He went back to the late-night talk show on March 3, 2010, to cover another song, "
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". He would later record Dan Hill's hit in April 2011 as a single which reached number 19 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart. It made Pacquiao one of the few Southeast Asians to enter a US ''Billboard'' chart. He also appeared with
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and sang a version of
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's "
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" for his third guesting on the show. His appearances on the show led to Canadian rapper
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impersonating him and making fun of his singing by creating a parody. Pacquiao responded by posting another video of himself singing. In 2015, he released an
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that featured his own recorded entrance song for his fight against
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and shortly announced his retirement from music, being quoted saying "I love music, but music is not for me". The following are Manny Pacquiao's albums from 2006 to 2015:


Albums


In popular culture


Film and television

A film based on Pacquiao's life, '' Pacquiao: The Movie'', was released on June 21, 2006, featuring Filipino actor
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as Manny Pacquiao and was directed by
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. The film flopped at the box office, grossing a total of only P4,812,191 (approximately US$99,322), as confirmed by Lamangan. Another film, based on Pacquiao's early life in boxing, ''
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'', was released on April 15, 2015, featuring young actor Robert Villar as Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao. The film dramatizes the life of the Filipino boxing superstar during his childhood. A documentary entitled "Manny", which featured Pacquiao's early life as well as his boxing and political career, was released with
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as the narrator.


Video games

Pacquiao has featured in the '' Fight Night'' boxing video game franchise as a playable character. The playable character Paquito, in the mobile game, '' Mobile Legends: Bang Bang'' was also inspired from Pacquiao. A
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was also made available for Paquito which changes the character's appearance to that of the real life boxer. Filipino game developer Ranida Games announced in 2021 that a mobile game revolving around Pacquiao's boxing career ''Fighting Pride: The Manny Pacquiao Saga'' is in the works.


Magazines

Pacquiao was one of ''Time's'' 100 most influential people for the year 2009, for his exploits in boxing and his influence among the
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. Pacquiao was also included by ''Forbes'' in its annual
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list for the year 2009, joining Hollywood actress
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and fellow athletes Woods and Bryant. Pacquiao has also appeared on the cover of ''Time'' magazine Asia for their November 16, 2009 issue. According to their five-page feature story, "(Pacquiao is) a fighter with enough charisma, intelligence and backstory to help rescue a sport lost in the labyrinth of pay-per-view. Global brands like Nike want him in their ads." They also added, "Pacquiao has a myth of origin equal to that of any Greek or Roman hero. He leaves the Philippines to make it even bigger, conquering the world again and again to bring back riches to his family and friends." Pacquiao became the eighth Filipino to grace the cover of the prestigious magazine, after former
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,
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,
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,
Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...
, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and Filipino actress and environmentalist
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. Pacquiao was also featured on the cover of
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Asia, where a seven-page story was written about the Filipino boxing superstar. The issue came out in November 2008, before Pacquiao's fight against De La Hoya.


Music

Pacquiao is also mentioned in some hip hop tracks including Kool A.D.'s song entitled "Manny Pacquiao" on his mixtape, '' 51''. A few notable ones are
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's "Get It Started", A$AP Rocky's "Phoenix",
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and
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' "Lighters",
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and
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's "Asshole", Future's "Never Gon' Lose",
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' "Chinatown",
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and
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's "I'm Legit" and
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's "High Definition",
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's "Just Like Manny P," and
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's "Betty" to name a few. Pacquiao became the first Filipino athlete to appear on a
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. A video clip of Pacquiao greeting his followers for
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was used as a meme in the
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.


Controversies


Taxation issues

On November 26, 2013, a few days after Pacquiao's victory over Brandon Ríos, the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued a freeze order on all of Pacquiao's Philippine bank accounts due to his alleged failure to pay ₱2.2 billion in taxes for earnings he made in his fights in the United States from 2008 to 2009. A day after the bank account freeze, the BIR also issued an order to freeze all of Pacquiao's Philippine properties, whereupon Pacquiao presented documents to the press showing the income tax for non-resident alien payment by his promoter to the BIR's US counterpart, the
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(IRS), as well as a letter from
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. In April 2017, Pacquiao, now a senator, approached Philippine authorities in an attempt to settle the case. The BIR had maintained that taxes were due even if all taxes had been paid to the IRS in the first place.


Homosexuality comments

In February 2016, Pacquiao, in a video statement posted by TV5, made a comment on the issue of same-sex marriage. Pacquiao, in vernacular, described people in
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s as behaving worse than animals because, he said, animals generally do not have same-sex mating. LGBT celebrities criticized the statements of the senatorial candidate. Pacquiao later apologized and stated that while, as a Christian, he is still against same-sex marriage, which he said is against Biblical teachings, he did not condemn gay people themselves.
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ended their longtime partnership with Pacquiao, stating his comments against gay people were abhorrent.
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in Los Angeles also banned Pacquiao from the shopping mall. Towards the end of the video, Pacquiao clarified that he is not condemning gay people.


Personal life

Pacquiao married Jinkee Jamora on May 10, 1999. Together, they have five children, Emmanuel Jr. (Jimuel), Michael Stephen, Mary Divine Grace (Princess) who is a popular
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vlogger with millions of subscribers and started the Pacquiao family's network of
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content, Queen Elizabeth (Queenie) and Israel. His first son, Jimuel, also rose to celebrity fame as an amateur boxer, model & actor, while his second son, Michael, is a rapper, who has amassed tens of millions of streams with his songs. His daughter, Queenie, was born in the
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. He resides in his hometown of General Santos, South Cotabato, Philippines. As the congressman representing the lone district of Sarangani from 2010 to 2016, he officially resided in
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, the hometown of his wife. Upon his election to the
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, he returned his official residence to General Santos, as Senators are elected on a nationwide basis, rather than by district. Pacquiao has a
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channel with 830,000 subscribers as of August 2022. The Pacquiao family constantly posts content about their activities together in their own separate YouTube channels. His daughter, Mary and his wife Jinkee both have one million subscribers and his sons Jimuel and Michael each have fewer than 600,000. On June 25, 2010, Pacquiao completed a 10-day crash course on Development Legislation and Governance at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP). Pacquiao was officially enrolled for two semesters at
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(NDDU) in the Academic Year 2007-2008 under the bachelor's degree of business administration major in marketing management program, however, Pacquiao was not able to finish the program and NDDU did not grant him a college degree. From June 8 to 17, 2016, Pacquiao underwent another 9-day Executive Coaching Program crash course conducted by the Development Academy of the Philippines, the
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, the
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, and the Philippine Public Safety College after he won a senate seat in 2016. On December 11, 2019, Pacquiao controversially graduated from the
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with a bachelor's degree in political science; majoring in local government administration through the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) of the Philippine Councilors League-Legislative Academy (PCCLA) which allows qualified Filipinos to complete a collegiate-level education via informal education system. Pacquiao reportedly completed the degree in one year, contrary to earlier reports of three months. Raised
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, Pacquiao is currently practicing and preaching
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Protestantism in the Philippines, Protestantism. Pacquiao said he once had a dream where he saw a pair of angels and heard the Voice of God, voice of God in Christianity, Godthis dream convinced him to become a devout believer. Pacquiao enlisted as a Military reserve, military reservist and was promoted with the rank of colonel in the Reserve Force of the Philippine Army. Prior to being promoted to full colonel after finishing his General Staff Course (GSC) schooling, he held the rank of lieutenant colonel for being a member of the Philippine Congress as per the AFP's regulations for reservist officers. He first entered the army's reserve force on April 27, 2006, as a sergeant. Later, he rose to Technical Sergeant on December 1 of the same year. On October 7, 2007, he became a Master Sergeant, the highest rank for enlisted personnel. On May 4, 2009, he was given the special rank of Senior Master Sergeant and was also designated as the Command Sergeant Major of the 15th Ready Reserve Division. In 2022, Pacquiao graduated from Philippine Christian University, with a master's degree in management, majoring in public administration.


Awards and recognitions


International

*2000–2009
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*2000–2009 HBO Fighter of the Decade *2001–2010
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Boxer of the Decade *2001–2010
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Best Pound-for-Pound Fighter of the Decade *2006, 2008 and 2009 Edward J. Neil Trophy, Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year *2006, 2008 and 2009
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Fighter of the Year *2006, 2008 and 2009 Ring Magazine, ''The Ring'' Ring Magazine fighters of the year, Fighter of the Year *2007 World Boxing Hall of Fame Fighter of the Year, Fighter of the year *2008
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Boxer of the Year *2008
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Fighter of the Year *2008 and 2009 ESPN Star Sports, ESPN Star's Champion of Champions *2008 and 2009
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Boxer of the Year *2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ''Ring Magazine pound for pound, The Ring'' No.1 Pound-for-Pound (year-end) *2009
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Knockout of the Year (''in Round 2 against Ricky Hatton'') *2009 and 2011
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Best Fighter *2009 and 2015 ''
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'' magazine World's Highest-Paid Athletes (ranked 6th and 2nd) *2009 ''
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'' Fighter of the Year *2009 The Ring Magazine, ''The Ring'' Ring Magazine knockouts of the year, Knockout of the Year (''in Round 2 against Ricky Hatton'') *2009 ''Time (magazine), TIME'' Time 100, 100 Most Influential People (Heroes and Icons Category) *2009, 2010, 2012 and 2015 ''
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'' magazine Celebrity 100, Celebrity 100 (The World's Most Powerful Celebrity) (ranked 57th, 55th, 33rd and 2nd) *2010
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Fighter of the Year *2010
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Boxing's Most Influential (ranked 25th) *2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015 The Ring magazine Event of the Year, The Ring Magazine Event of the year *2011 Las Vegas Walk of Stars Awardee *2011 Guinness World Records Most boxing world titles in different weight divisions (8 times; since November 13, 2010) *2012 Laredo Asian Association Special Recognition Award *2013 On The Ropes Boxing Awards Comeback Fighter of the Year *2013 The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year, ''The Ring'' magazine Comeback of the Year *2014, 2015 and 2016
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Asia Pacific Most Trusted Sports Personality *2014 On The Ropes Boxing Awards Fighter of the Year *2014 PublicAffairsAsia HP Gold Standard Award for Communicator of the Year *2015 Asia Society's Asia Game Changer Awards, Asia Game Changer of the Year *2016 ''
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'' magazine Boxing's MVPs (ranked 4th) *2019 ''Forbes'' magazine Highest Paid Athletes of the Decade (ranked 8th) *2019 World Boxing News Fighter of the year


National

*2000–2009 PSA Sportsman of the Year, Philippine Sportswriters Association Athlete of the Decade *2000–2009 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial Boxer of the Decade *2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial Boxer of the Year *2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008 PSA Sportsman of the Year *2003 Presidential Medal of Merit *2003 and 2010 Congressional Medal of Achievement / Distinction / Honor *2006 Order of Lakandula with the rank of "Champion for Life" (''Kampeon Habambuhay'')Arroyo confers Order of Sikatuna to boxing champ Pacquiao
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*2006 Eastwood City Walk of Fame Awardee *2006 Box Office Entertainment Awards, 36th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards People's Hero Award *2008 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial Hall of Fame Awardee *2008 Philippine Legion of Honor with the rank of Philippine Legion of Honor#Ranks, "Officer" (''Pinuno'') *2008 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Honorary Award for Sports Excellence *2009 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial Best Pound For Pound Boxer Award *2009 25th Philippine Movie Press Club Star Awards for Movies Newsmaker of the Year *2009 Order of Sikatuna with the rank of ''Datu'' (Grand Cross with Gold Distinction) *2009 Southwestern University (Philippines), Southwestern University – honorary degree, honorary Doctorate of Humanities (''Honoris Causa'' as accorded by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines), Commission on Higher Education) *2010–2019 PSA Sportsman of the Year, Philippine Sportswriters Association Athlete of the Decade *2011 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial "Quintessential Athlete" Award *2012 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial "Man of Others" Award *2013, 2016 and 2018 Gabriel "Flash" Elorde Memorial Award of Distinction *2015 MEGA Man Magazine Man of the Year *2017 Bawas Bisyo Youth for Sin Tax Movement Anti-smoking champion *2018 League of Municipalities of the Philippines – Cebu "Cebuano Heritage Award for Manny Pacquiao" *2019 Box Office Entertainment Awards, 50th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards Global Achievement by a Filipino Award *2020 Clean Air Philippines Movement, Inc. (CAPMI) "Clean Air Champion" award *2021 PSA Sportsman of the Year, Philippine Sportswriters Association Chooks-to-Go Fan Favorite "Manok ng Bayan" Award


Electoral history


Filmography


Film


Television


TV documentary film


Video games


Concerts


Basketball stats


PBA season-by-season averages

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UNTV Cup season-by-season averages

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See also

*List of world flyweight boxing champions *List of world super-bantamweight boxing champions *List of world super-featherweight boxing champions *List of world lightweight boxing champions *List of world welterweight boxing champions *List of world light-middleweight boxing champions *List of boxing triple champions *List of boxing quadruple champions *List of boxing quintuple champions *List of boxing sextuple champions *List of boxing septuple champions *List of Filipino boxing world champions *List of left-handed boxers *The Ring magazine Pound for Pound, ''The Ring'' pound for pound


References


External links

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