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PROFILE
Name: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao
Alias: Pac Man, The Destroyer
Birth Date: December 17, 1978
Birth Place: Sarangani, Phillippines
Residence: General Santos City, Phillippines
Nationality: Filipino
Age: 30
Height: 5' 6½"
Reach: 67"
Stance or Style: Southpaw
Weight category: Light Welterweight
Trained by: Freddie Roach
Manager: Shelly Finkel
Global ID: 006129
US ID: 015582
Strengths:
* Lefthander with good skills, speed and movement
* Tremendous punching power in both hands
* Shown great improvement in his right hook
* Physically strong
* Always in top condition
* Experienced against top opposition
Regional and Minor Titles
* OPBF flyweight champion (1997-98)
* WBC International super bantamweight champion (1999-01)
* WBC International super featherweight title (2005-present (Nov 2007))
World Titles
* WBC flyweight champion (1997-98, lost title when he failed to make weight for title bout)
* IBF super bantamweight champion (2001-03, vacated to fight at featherweight)
* WBC Super Featherweight champion
* WBC Lightweight champion
Other Title Claim
Pacquiao was recognized as champion at featherweight by The Ring magazine. The website, Cyber Boxing Zone, also recognizes this claim. Pacquiao vacated his featherweight claim, after his loss to Erik Morales, expressing a desire to continue fighting at 130 pounds.
Awards and Recognition
* 2006 ESPN "Fighter of the Year"
* 2006 Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year
* 2006 Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year
* 2007 World Boxing Hall of Fame "Fighter of the Year"
Amateur and Personal Background:
*Manny was born in General Santos City, Philippines...he has an older sister, Zedra, and two younger brothers - Bobby, who is also a professional boxer, and Rogel
*Their parents were vegetable farmers, and are now estranged...Manny built a house for his mother close to his own...his father still lives in the mountains.
*When Manny was 12, he moved to Manila and sold cigarettes on the streets
*He started boxing and made the Philippines’ national amateur team; his room and board were paid for by the federal government, and he reportedly had 64 amateur fights (60-4)
*He said, “When I was younger, I watched so many videos of Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and others. I used to rent the videos.
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Manny turned pro at 16 and won the Oriental-Pacific flyweight title when he was 18; he invited Bobby to come to Manila and took him to the boxing gym
*Brother Rogel was also a talented boxer, but suffered a head injury in a serious motorcycle accident and no longer boxes.
*He has become a national hero in the Philippines, and a a movie star, as well – he has starred in popular Filipino action movies with his friend, Mikey Arroyo, the son of the Philippines President
*Manny enjoys playing pool in his spare time.
*From BoxingConfidential.com, Feb. 5, 2007: Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao and his brother Bobby today went to a school in General Santos City to take a special exam that would allow them to get the equivalent of high school units of educational attainment.
*Both Pacquiaos only finished elementary grades, they admit, due to extreme poverty when they were still growing up - a fact they have not forgotten now despite owning million dollar bank accounts from their boxing earnings.
*At the Department of Education Testing Center, the fighting brothers took the High School Equivalency Test for six hours, a process Manny called “very, very tiring.” The brothers were administered exams in English, Filipino, Social Studies, Mathematics and Science.
“He was very determined to pass, just as he is very determined to win in his fights. He had read the questions very religiously, and answered them well,” said a Dept of Education official when interviewed by the media.
The examinations started at 1:00 PM and ended at 6:30 PM, a process described by Pacquiao as more tiring that his trilogy with Erik Morales.
* Manny and his wife Jinky have four children.
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PROFILE
Name: Richard John Hatton
Alias: The HITMAN
Birth Date: October 6, 1978
Birth Place: Stockport, Greater Manchester
Residence: Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Age: 30
Height: 5' 7 1/2 "
Reach: 65"
Stance or Style: Orthodox
Weight category: light Welterweight
Trained by: Billy Graham
Manager: Ray Hatton
US ID: 049253
Global ID: 9314
Amateur Accomplishments
* Amateur Record: 73-7
* 1996 Junior World Championships Light Welterweight Bronze Medalist
* 1997 ABA light welterweight champion
Awards and Recognition
* 2005 Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year: Hatton is the first British boxer to receive the award since its inception in 1928
* 2005 ESPN.com Fighter of the Year
* Mens Fitness Magazine's Fittest Sportsman
* 2007 Awarded the honor of Order of the British Empire - Member (MBE)
* The Ring Magazine Light Welterweight Champion
* Former WBA Welterweight World Champion
* Former Two-Time IBF Light Welterweight World Champion
* Former WBA Light Welterweight World Champion
* Current and Reigning IBO Light Welterweight World Champion
* Former WBU Light Welterweight World Champion
* Former British Light Welterweight Champion
* Former WBA Inter-Continental Light Welterweight Champion
* Former WBO Inter-Continental Light Welterweight Champion
* Former Central Area Light Welterweight Champion
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