FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. The future fighter’s father then ate the innocent pet as Pacquiao watched, unable to stop his father.“He killed my dog,” Pacquiao wrote. He won his second fight handily, defeating Narongrit Pirang in a technical knockout in the fourth round.And, in 2005, in a fight for the vacant WBC International Super Featherweight title, and the International Boxing Association World Super Featherweight title, he lost to Eric Morales, again at the MGM Grand, in a unanimous decision after 12 rounds. Pacquiao lost his title, and Mayweather retained his, in a 12th-round unanimous decision. In December, he defended his OPBF title with a first-round knockout of Narong Datchthuyawat.In 1998, he fought only two fights. To date, his professional record is 62 wins, with 39 knockouts; 7 losses, being knocked out 3 times, and 2 draws.Manny "Pac Man" Pacquiao has been boxing since he was 14 years old before turning pro. “He took the puppy I found and killed it.
In June of the same year, he knocked out Chockchai Chokvivat in the fifth round, to claim his first Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title as a "Fly Weight." Mayweather hasn't fought With his win against Thurman, Pacquiao became the oldest World Welterweight champion in the history of boxing.
The two argued, and Pacquiao’s father killed his dog. He also defeated WBC World Lightweight title holder David Diaz with a technical knockout in the ninth round. © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. He was elected again in 2013, and in June 2016, he was elected senator, serving until 2022.Receive full access to our market insights, commentary, newsletters, breaking news alerts, and more.Receive full access to our market insights, commentary, newsletters, breaking news alerts, and more.Emanuel 'Manny' Pacquiao has made a name for himself as a boxer, but he also plays basketball, sings, is a Philippine Army officer and is a senator in the Philippines government.© 2020 TheStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. He had one other fight that year, against Hector Velazquez, which he won in a technical knockout in the sixth round, defending the WBC International Super Featherweight title.His first fight of the next year was against old rival Eric Morales, again defending the WBC International Super Featherweight title, which he won in a technical knockout in the 10th round. It was his only fight that year.In 2018, he fought only once as well, against Lucas Martin Matthysse, for the WBA World Welterweight title. A Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch has been mooted for 2020 but Khan thinks the American would only want to return if he’s blown his fortune. "Pac Man" fought only once more that year, in October, defending his IBF World Super Bantam title against Paryat Sawaigam with a first-round technical knockout.In 2003, Pacquiao fought three fights, winning them all.But, in 2004, again aiming for new titles, the WBA Super World Featherweight and the IBF World Featherweight, the first of two fights was decided a draw between him and Juan Manuel Marquez after 12 rounds, in a split decision. Mayweather handed Pacquiao a defeat in a unanimous decision, taking Pacquiao's WBO Welterweight title to add to his WBA Super World Welterweight and WBC World Welterweight titles. He also has a 5-bedroom, 5.5-bath two-story home in Los Angeles, Calif.But that's not all. The WBC World Fly Weight title became vacant when Pacquiao lost his third fight of that year, against Boonsai Sangsurat, in a technical knockout decision in the third round.But by December of that same year, Pacquiao won the WBC International Super Bantam Weight title, defeating Raynante Jamili with a second-round technical knockout.By the start of the next decade, he was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America, even though he had only three fights that year, all of which he won in technical knockouts.But in 2001, "Pac Man" started having some difficulties, challenging himself to collect more titles. In three fights of 2006, he fought and successfully defended his WBC International Super Featherweight title, twice against Morales, the second one being won by a technical knockout in the 10th round, and the third being against Oscar Larios, which he won by unanimous decision in the 12th round.He fought just two fights in 2007, defending his WBC International Super Featherweight title, and won both, winning the first, against Jorge Solis, with a knockout in the eighth round.In 2008, he defeated WBC World Super Featherweight title holder Juan Manuel Marquez, in a split decision in the 12th round. He turned professional in January 1995 as a 16-year-old, winning 23 of his first 24 bouts.The breakthrough came two weeks before Pacquiao’s 20A portion of Manny Pacquiao’s success as a fighter and then as a political figure in his homeland can be traced to anger toward his father over an act of unspeakable cruelty that he chronicled in his autobiography.Pacquiao was one of six children in the family and possibly the least outgoing of the siblings. He lost none, notably knocking out Arman Rocil in the third round of an 8-round fight in September of that year.The next year, 1996, he had 7 fights, but was knocked out by Rustico Torrecampo, in the third round of his second fight that year.