A hero’s welcome awaits this city’s favorite son, boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao, when he comes home to General Santos City this week despite his devastating defeat to Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez.
That’s what he gets for changing his religion,” Dionisia Pacquiao said in an interview in General Santos City.
Despite his elimination from the London Olympics following a razor-thin loss against a much taller opponent, Mark Anthony Barriga could still expect a hero’s welcome in his hometown Panabo City, Davao del Norte.
Protestant pastors have been coming in droves to Manny Pacquiao’s mansion in General Santos City. And their number is increasing each day.
Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao welcomed on Thursday the news that a five-man panel of the World Boxing Organization tasked with reviewing the judgment on the Pacquiao fight with Timothy Bradley unanimously ruled that Pacquiao won the fight for the welterweight title in Las Vegas weeks ago.
There was none of the usual hero’s welcome for world boxing champion and Rep. Manny Pacquiao. Still, people lined up to see him.
Minutes after his idol lost in his fight, an ailing fan of Manny Pacquiao died of heart attack, Sunday, his relatives said.
The Philippines’ Lorenzo Villanueva lived up to his reputation of knocking down his boxing opponents during the first few minutes of the fight. But his eagerness proved to be his undoing and he ended up losing to Indonesian Daud Yordan in the fight for the International Boxing Organization’s (IBO) World Featherweight Title held at the Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore on Saturday evening.
Lorenzo “Thunderbolt” Villanueva of Bual Norte, Midsayap, North Cotabato faces the toughest challenge of his fighting career yet when he squares off with Indonesian Daud Cino Yordan for the International Boxing Organization’s (IBO) World Featherweight Title at the Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore on Saturday, May 5.
At least five people were killed while three others were injured when a fish hauler collided with another truck in Polunoling in Tupi, South Cotabato, early Friday, one of the survivors told a local radio station in an interview.
Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is a gambling man no more and has even given up the nightlife, people close to him say.
Boxing icon and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao said Thursday negotiations were going on between his camp and that of Floyd Mayweather Jr. for a possible bout next year.
People at Lagao gymnasium were dismayed that their boxing idol, Manny Pacquiao, failed to knock Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez down.
