Saturday, August 2, 2008

Yay for Asians!


Somewhat older new news:

The 'Thrilla from Manila', Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, known affectionately as Pac-Man, is the current reigning WBC lightweight and WBS super featherweight champion. On June 28, 2008 Pacquiao defeated David Diaz to win the WBC world lightweight title (pictured above). Phillipine born Pacquiao is the first asian to hold this distinguished title. Go Asians! Source.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We watched that fight at Aunt Lina's party! Someone ordered it on pay-per-view.

Gary said...

baungh! baungh! baungh! (phonetic joke)

heyroth said...

I actually almost play as him in Fight Night..

Gary said...

ha, is he good in the game?

heyroth said...

fierce competitor, he's got a crazy special move..

Anonymous said...

I watched this fight on the HBO re-run, and boy howdy, Manny is something else. Diaz took the blows, but the PacMan is a freakin' tornado...

Gary said...

sounds like a missed hell of a fight...I got to check out his next one...