Filipino

Does Boxing Icon Manny Pacquiao Have The Midas Touch?

That’s an easy one for my favorite Filipino-American barber, whom you all know by now.

Yep, I got my hair cut again the other day and of course I got the latest scoop on one the greatest boxers of all time.

Manny Pacquiao has won world titles in seven different weight classes and is currently the Welterweight champion of the world.

But there is more to the most popular Filipino!

Besides dancing around his opponents in the ring, Manny aspires to singing (I didn’t say he is another Arnel Pineda) and he is very involved in philanthropic work especially in his home country of The Philippines.

Several years ago he announced his aspirations to attain political office and guess what!

“The Pacman” set another milestone by winning a congressional seat in the province of Sarangani by garnering 120,052 votes and beating his opponent, Mr. Roy Chionbian, by 50,000 votes.

So, officially Manny Pacquiao will be a lawmaker and probably better known as the Fighting Congressman of The Philippines starting November 2010.

I ask you: Will the day come that we know Manny Paquiao as The President of The Philippines?