Manny Pacquiao -Champion Fighter, Congressman and Outstanding Filipino

"I was hoping the referee would stop the fight before we reached the final round" exclaimed Manny Paquiao during his post fight interview, when he noticed his opponent having difficulty seeing with his good eye, but the referee did nothing.

So, towards the last two rounds Manny just delivered relatively lighter blows to the already suffering Margarito in an attempt to, sort of, minimize his opponent's pain as the bout reached the final round.

Such was Manny, a kind of "gentleman fighter" that he was. A true Filipino, from humble beginnings, who rose to the peak of his career as he won his much awaited fight over Antonio Margarito, Mexican, in their 12 round fight held in Texas on November 13, 2010.
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao also known as Manny Pacquiao, or just Manny, was born on December 17, 1978), and according to Wikipedia, is a Filipino professional boxer and politician eight-devision world champpion. the first boxer in history to win ten world titles in eight different weight divisions.

Manny is also the first boxer in history to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes.

He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the year 2000 by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He is also a three-time BWAA and THE RING "Fighter of the Year" in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

To date, Pacquiao is the WBD Super Welterweight World Champion and WBO Welterweight World Champion (Super Champion). He is also rated as the "number one pound for pound best boxer in the world" by several sporting news and boxing websites.

Aside from boxing, Manny a classical homespun Filipino has participated in movieacting, music recording, and now as a politician.

In May 2010, Pacquiao was elected to the House of the 15th Congress of the Philippine Government, representing the province of Sarangani in Southern Philippines. He is the only active boxer to become a congressman in the Philippines.^[
So well put by no other than my friend Krip Yuson in his column the day after the historic fight in Texas:
"Years from now, when Congressman Manny has retired from the ring and goes for the Senate presidency, maybe even higher, we will all treasure the memories of the first decade of this millennium when our Pacman reduced the crime rate for a day, thrilled us with his skills, and made us proud as one family in celebration of the best fighter in the world.

With Pacman, his amazing climb to the very peak of ringcraft has given us all a bond with history itself — how an underweight teener who ran away from Mindanao because his dad had eaten his dog, steadily worked himself to the bone and perfected his talents, mainly that fueled by heart.

The speed and the power were to come later. A terrific trainer and savvy handling, plus that consistent desire to outdo himself, did the rest.

We have an eight-division champion, and he's Pinoy. And no one may match that record ever.

And so we'll recollect before our grandkids how attendance at noonday Mass dipped one Sunday in November 2010 when our Manny Pacquiao of the congressional district of Sarangani became the first to achieve that feat, in the process also becoming the first ever legislator to win a title in a boxing ring — the WBC World Super Welterweight championship.
Sweet times for the sweet science, we will remember — with every detail — and thank ourselves that we lived in these times, those times — but with the most gratitude reserved for one small guy who became so big the world over that he lorded it over our special Sundays.