Manny Pacquiao
Eight divisions, from flyweight to light middleweight.
- Born
- December 17, 1978, Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines
- Nationality
Philippines- Height
- 165 cm (5′5″)
- Reach
- 170 cm (5′7″)
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Style
- Aggressive southpaw
- Weight
- Light flyweight, Flyweight, Super bantamweight, Featherweight, Super featherweight, Lightweight, Light welterweight, Welterweight, Light middleweight
- Active
- 1995–2021, 2025–present
- Status
- Active · age 47
The record
Professional; includes the July 2025 majority draw with Mario Barrios (confirmed by Al Jazeera). The IBHOF page shows his 2021 retirement record, 62-8-2
The story
mmanuel Pacquiao was born in Kibawe, Bukidnon, grew up in poverty and turned pro in 1995 at 16. He won his first world title at flyweight in 1998 and, with trainer Freddie Roach, climbed the weights with a fast, all-action southpaw style, beating Marco Antonio Barrera, Érik Morales and Juan Manuel Márquez. Across 2008 and 2009 he beat Oscar De La Hoya, knocked out Ricky Hatton in two rounds and stopped Miguel Cotto, and in 2010 he won a world title in an eighth division, something no one else has done. He lost to Floyd Mayweather in 2015, won a welterweight title at 40 and served as a senator in the Philippines. He returned at 46 in 2025 and drew with Mario Barrios.
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- Only eight-division world champion in boxing history
- Lineal champion in four weight classes
- Oldest welterweight world champion (won at 40, 2019)
- International Boxing Hall of Fame (Class of 2025)
- BWAA Fighter of the Decade (2000s)
- The Ring Fighter of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009)
- WBC Fighter of the Century (2025)
Defining fights
- 1998WINvs Chatchai Sasakul (KO 8, won WBC flyweight title)
- 2003WINvs Marco Antonio Barrera (TKO 11)
- 2009WINvs Ricky Hatton (KO 2)
- 2009WINvs Miguel Cotto (TKO 12, won WBO welterweight title)
- 2015LOSSvs Floyd Mayweather Jr. (UD 12)
Pair hand speed with footwork: Pacquiao got in fast, landed the straight left and was gone before the counter came. Drill southpaw step-in straight lefts and leave the range straight after each one.
