After a year of continuing success in the ring, Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has been nominated for his first Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award, following a ballot by the world’s media.
Pacquiao, long regarded as the world’s No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer by the Ring magazine, and named Fighter of the Decade‚ for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America, has had a record-breaking campaign last year. He took a unanimous decision win over Joshua Clottey for the WBO welterweight championship last March then Pacquiao became the first ever boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions when he beat Mexico’s Antonio Margarito in Dallas for the WBC light-middleweight title last November. read more from source
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