Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao is a former professional boxer and politician from the Philippines. He is considered one of the best professional boxers of all time and is known as "PacMan." He has been a senator in the Philippines since 2016.

Manny Pacquiao is boxing's only eight-division world champion, having won twelve major world titles. He was the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes, the first to win major world titles in four of the eight "glamour divisions" (flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight), and the only boxer to hold world crowns throughout four decades (the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s).

Manny Pacquiao defeated Keith Thurman to capture the WBA (Super) welterweight championship in July 2019, making him 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. Pacquiao's 25 pay-per-view fights had produced $1.2 billion in revenue as of 2015. According to Forbes, he was the world's second-highest-paid athlete in 2015.

Outside of boxing and politics, Manny Pacquiao was the head coach and a player for the Philippine Basketball Association team Kia/Mahindra from 2014 to 2017, before establishing the semi-professional Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. He has also appeared in films and on television series. He is also a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and Evangelical Christian preacher.

Born: December 17, 1978

Nationality: Filipino