{"id":102814,"date":"2025-08-28T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102814\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:20:08","slug":"pacquiao-pays-courtesy-call-on-president-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102814\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao pays courtesy call on President Marcos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former senator and Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao paid a courtesy call on President Ferdinand &#8221;Bongbong&#8221; Marcos Jr. in Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao told reporters that he presented his WBC belt to the President and he also gave him boxing gloves as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Nandito tayo para magpresent sa kanya ng ating WBC belt saka &#8216;yung gloves na regalo din natin sa kanya,&#8221; Pacquiao said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(We are here to present our WBC belt and the gloves, which we gave as a gift.)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Pacquiao, who was a rival of Marcos in the 2022 presidential polls, was named as the no. 1 rated boxer in the welterweight division, according to the ratings released by the World Boxing Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao, who previously retired from the sport in 2021, returned to the ring after four years to face Mario Barrios.\u00a0He was also recently inducted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/boxing\/948840\/manny-pacquiao-enshrined-to-boxing-hall-of-fame\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boxing Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/boxing\/953171\/manny-pacquiao-vs-mario-barrios-july-19-2025\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barrios<\/a>, the WBC welterweight champion, retained his world title after a 12-round fight with the 46-year-old Pacquiao via a 115-113 Barrios, 114-114, 114-114 majority draw at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.\u00a0\u2014 Anna Felicia Bajo\/RSJ, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former senator and Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao paid a courtesy call on President Ferdinand &#8221;Bongbong&#8221; Marcos Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,59216,708,82],"class_list":["post-102814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-jr","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}