Manny Pacquiao Headed For a Stunning Electoral Victory

[2-0-Sixx]

Wow. Props to Manny, quite the accomplishment.



Manny Pacquiao Headed For a Stunning Electoral Victory
By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao is about to pull off probably the biggest win of his life in the congressional ring of Sarangani province where he is, by all accounts, demolishing his opponent from the wealthy Chiongbian dynasty, Roy Chiongbian.

Pacquiao was beating Chiongbian by an almost two-to-one margin in Kiamba according to a report by the giant broadcast network ABS-CBN.

Kiamba is where Pacquiao has a home and from where his charming wife and indefatigable campaigner Jinkee comes from while in vote rich Glan longtime friend and boxing fan, businessman-sportsman Rey Golingan reported Pacquiao was winning handsomely.

Golingan said Pacquiao was also leading the count in the municipality of Alabel which in the last general elections had a voting population of 33,071.

Indications are that Pacquiao will carry all three key municipalities which would assure him of fulfilling his dream of winning the lone congressional seat in Sarangani province so he could help the poor people of the region.



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Bob Arum: Early Reports Indicate Pacquiao Will Win Big

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says based on reports received so far, Manny Pacquiao is likely to win big in his bid for a congressional seat in Sarangani province.

Arum said that respected journalists Nancy Day of AOL. Fanhouse and Bill Dwyre, columinist of the Los Angeles Times went out to a polling place in an area where Pacquiao was expected to carry and reported that “everybody was for Manny and that in most areas he was sweeping big.”

However, Arum said that in a polling place located where candidate Roy Chiongbian has a plantation, the voters were all for Chiongbian as expected since they worked for the Chiongbian family.

They also noted that the police and military have come out to make sure that the people are able to vote without any interference and in an orderly manner.

Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz said they expect to get results of the polls by around 7:00 p.m. and that he was “optimistic” that Pacquiao would win.

 

[Johnny Truelove]

que que? fuck all that the biggest win of his life would be beating mayweather lets make that fight happen...

 

[2-0-Sixx]

^^Good news is win or lose Pac is still fighting. He said 2-3 more times before he retires. Hopefully we can get Pac-May end of this year.

 

[MOREBASS]

All I care about is if he's still fighting!


He's always been good at keeping it all about fighting when its time for that. This is a pretty huge responsibility, so hopefully he is still able to do that.

 

[Johnny Truelove]

manny's last 3 fights should be against mayweather, margarito & marquez.

 

[JReezelle]

I hope the other political party don't try to put a hit on him! Politics in the P.I. is nothing nice and I wish Pac never got involved.

 

[Tragedy]

yea politics is all bad. reading and seeing on the news how many innocent people got murdered for it.

on the flip side i'm thinking this will juice pac even more and can help for the fight. if he wins the congressional seat he'll be on top of the world.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

Pacquiao the Congressman: Manny TKO's billionaire to win seat in landslide

World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao knows how to pull a political punch.

He couldn't outspend his billionaire opponent, so the seven-time title holder and current WBO welterweight champ out-worked him, taking his message to the people and concentrating as hard in the political arena as he does the boxing ring in pulling a landslide upset victory early Tuesday morning to win a seat in Congress in the Philippines, representing the province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao, birthplace of his wife Jinkee.

It was a satisfying win, washing away the taste of defeat from his failed bid for office in 2007. He told Nancy Gay of FanHouse.com that it was "the most personally satisfying win of his life."

Pacman won by pressing the message and being there for the people. The strategy worked, and on early Tuesday morning he was declared the champion, soundly defeating the heavily favored candidate, Roy Chiongbian, 61, from an entrenched billionaire family.

By doing so, Pacquiao, 31, becomes the first professional boxer to hold national public office while still active in the ring.

"This is the biggest achievement of Manny's life. More than any boxing match," said Pacquiao's adviser, Michael Koncz, adding that Pacquiao will make an official proclamation of victory at 11 a.m local time Tuesday.

On election night, Pacquiao was still working the phones like a concerned candidate. The champ was busy at his General Santos City mansion, personally speaking to his poll watchers at the 379 precincts at schools and public meeting places throughout his area, hoping to get a sense of how the voters -- most of them desperately poor coconut farmers, tuna fishermen or laborers who exist on less than $2 a day -- were leaning.

"It's 80-20 [percent] in my favor." Pacquiao, 31, announced, beaming with confidence that he was about to bury Chiongbian, whose billionaire family owns most of the businesses and the power plant in Sarangani and has been in control for at least 30 years. It was about 4 p.m., and Pacman the politician and underdog believed he was on the verge of a knockout.

While Top Rank boss Bob Arum excitedly called out results Monday night at the PCM campaign center, he also said he expected Pacquiao would enter the boxing ring again on Nov. 13. Would it be against Floyd Mayweather Jr.?

Arum wouldn't say. "I'm not here to negotiate a fight," Arum said breathlessly to FanHouse's Nancy Gay. "This night is all about Manny accomplishing his dream, to help his people make a better life."

Besides, that much-anticipated bout will require plenty of negotiation, something Arum wasn't interested in while his favorite client was celebrating political victory in the next room.

An increasingly confident Arum, however, beamed when Pacquiao burst into the room with more positive results.

"Mr. Congressman!" Pacquiao said excitedly, dancing into the room.

At Arum's request, a local reporter called Roy Chiongbian's nephew and made an offer: concede by 9:30 p.m., two ringside tickets to Pacquiao's next fight.

Chiongbian laughed, but politely refused the offer.

A midnight visit to Chiongbian's home in General Santos City found the favored candidate asleep. He had called it a night.

Throughout the Pacquiao campaign office, cheers erupted when a new result was reported. As night turned into the early hours of Tuesday, voting results slowly trickled in by mobile phone. By 2 a.m., most of the Pacquiao campaign office had turned in for the night as official Comelec reporting ceased until 8 a.m. Tuesday.

For, even though the final vote tallies weren't complete, Pacquiao's approximately 90,000 votes out of 125,000 registered voters made it mathematically impossible for the boxing hero to lose.

Defeated soundly in his previous attempt at public office, a poorly run 2007 congressional campaign in the province of South Cotabato that saw him lose to the Antonino-Custodio political clan that runs General Santos City, Pacquiao was determined to conduct a more sound, organized campaign this time.

A well-known ally of outgoing (and unpopular) president Gloria Arroyo, Pacquiao ensured he would successfully challenge the Chiongbians by pouring more than $1 million of his own money (in U.S. dollars) into a highly sophisticated campaign, one that also relied on grass roots rallies and -- in some cases -- financial incentives that would encourage his desperately poor constituents to vote for him and his PCM ticket.

Pacquiao selected a province further south, Sarangani, where his wife Jinkee was born and raised, for this congressional campaign, and he laid his bets that his celebrity and promises of helping the poor rise to self-sufficiency would resonate with voters.

It did, by an overwhelming margin.

Pacquiao will be sworn into office in late June and can fulfill his congressional duties in July. That will allow him to continue training for the planned November fight.

 

[bgrumpyp]

Does he know anything bout politics? or is it something that fame and money bought him, like it did for Arnold?

 

[2-0-Sixx]

^^obviously fame is what got him here but he's been involved in politics since 2001, if not prior to that. He is known as being a man of the poor, he never moved out from his poor town, etc. and he's obviously very generous with his wealth and constantly is helping the poor. That's the main reason people love him, not just because he's a great fighter, but because what he's done for the communities.

 

[WYNO707X4]

how can u hate this guy....... manny for governer of california 2014!

 

[JReezelle]

^^^ LMAO...real talk I just hope he really stays heavily guarded whenver he's in the P.I. Politics is really no joke out there. My pops grew up in a village province and politicians got merked in these boonie ass places, where their seat really don't hold no power at all. Pops told me a story of election time in his small province when he was a kid in church on a sunday morning and the current Mayor gettin offed with M16's while mass was in session.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

^^That shit is still happening there all the time. Shit's wild. As much as I don't want Pac in politics right now, I have to respect what he's doing. His risking his life, his fortune, everything really for what he believes in.

But knowing Pac and where he came from...extreme poverty and always stay grounded despite the money & fame and constantly help the poor. It's very admirable and it makes sense why he wanted to be in politics so badly.

This piece of shit gym that Pac trained at when he was a teenager, the LM Gym in Manila, it explains why he is so tough today:

(those are old bike tires holding his legs while he does sit-ups on a wood plank)

After he won his first title he bought the gym and completely renovated it and now it's a complete gym open to anyone and they have modern day equipment, etc.

Some words from a guy who lives not far from the gym:

Way back before he won the flyweight belt (during hi BLOW-BY-BLOW days) he trained at that place all day, used to watch him and man was he really a freak of nature.

After his workouts, he'd hang out outside to enjoy sago't gulaman, turon and balut, and cracks jokes a lot.

When he returned to buy the place and renovate it and whenever he goes by there he would just have people line up to give out money to fellow boxers and the street food vendors there.​

 

[JReezelle]

^^That shit is still happening there all the time. Shit's wild. As much as I don't want Pac in politics right now, I have to respect what he's doing. His risking his life, his fortune, everything really for what he believes in.

But knowing Pac and where he came from...extreme poverty and always stay grounded despite the money & fame and constantly help the poor. It's very admirable and it makes sense why he wanted to be in politics so badly.

That's real talk brotha, I just hope the evil that men do out there don't catch up to him!