Manny Pacquiao Biography

Fast Facts

• Left home at age 14 to make money for his family as a boxer
• Made his professional boxing debut at age 16
• Has been named WBC champion in the super featherweight, flyweight, lightweight, welterweight, and super welterweight classes, including four successful defenses of his welterweight title
• Named the Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year several times, the first in 2006
• Released his first album, Laban Nating Lahat Ito, in 2006
• Even though he was not competing at the games, was the flag bearer for the Philippines at the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
• Named Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Decade for 2000-09
• First eight-division world champion in boxing history
• Elected to the Philippine House of Representatives at Sarangani in 2010 on his own ticket, the People's Champ Movement
• In 2014, was named head coach and a player of the Kia Sorento from the Philippine Basketball Association
• Named an Ambassador for Habitat for Humanity Philippines