The famed boxer and former politician met with the chief executive, who also happens to be his former rival in the Presidential polls three years ago.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, August 28, Filipino boxing legend and People\u2019s Champ Manny Pacquiao paid a courtesy call on President Marcos at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace in Manila.<\/p>\n
Pacquiao brought with him the World Boxing Council\u2019s (WBC) belt he received from his comeback fight against WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios last July in Las Vegas, USA and also gifted Marcos a pair of signed boxing gloves.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, after the meeting, Pacman shared that PBBM has also expressed his \u201call-out\u201d support for the upcoming \u2018Thrilla in Manila\u2019 event in October.<\/p>\n
It will be a week-long celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, which took place on October 1, 1975, at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila.<\/p>\n
\u201cNapakalaking tulong nito at salamat sa suporta ng ating Pangulo. Napakalaking tulong ng ating Pangulo sa pakikipagtulungan ng mga ahensya ng ating gobyerno,\u201d said Pacquiao.<\/p>\n
He also promised to deliver in order to make the commemoration, which aims to promote Filipino pride and talent in the sport of boxing, a success.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatuwa naman si Presidente. All-out support naman siya. Maraming salamat,\u201d Pacquiao added.<\/p>\n
The boxing legend also confirmed that Marcos has accepted the invitation to grace the event, and told, \u201cManonood siya. Interesadong-interesado siya sa concept na \u2018yun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The famed boxer and former politician met with the chief executive, who also happens to be his former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-103721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103721","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=103721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}