INTRODUCING MANNY ‘PACMAN’ PACQUIAO
One of the world’s most iconic athletes and the reigning WBO World Welterweight Champion, Manny Pacquiao is considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time and is the first and only eight-division world champion.
The world’s most popular Asian athlete and long rated as the best pound for pound boxer in the world by the mainstream sporting press, Pacquiao was named “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), WBC, and WBO.
Pacquiao’s 2015 bout with Floyd Mayweather lived up to its billings as the ‘Fight of the Century’, breaking pay-per- view viewership records in the United States, with 4.6 million domestic buys (each buy accounts for approximately 5.5 viewers) and millions more watching around the world. Across his career, Pacquiao has generated approximately 19.2 million in pay-per-view buys and $1.2 billion in revenue from his 23 pay- per-view bouts.
Outside of the ring Pacquiao is a serving Senator of the Philippines and has over 11.7million Facebook followers.
INTRODUCING JEFF ‘THE HORNET‘ HORN
Jeff Horn is no ordinary athlete. After just seventeen professional bouts this proud Queenslander is already ranked #2 in the IBF, #2 in the WBO and #13 in the WBA, holding the WBO Inter-Continental Welterweight Title and the IBF Inter-Continental Welterweight Title.
Raised in a stable, loving family, the charming, good looking and well- mannered 28-year-old, formerly a school-teacher, began boxing at the relatively late age of 18.
Establishing a name for himself with a decorated amateur career, including Australia’s best ever Olympic boxing performance at London 2012, Horn decided to make the switch to the paid ranks in 2013 and is now on course to become Australia first ever world welterweight boxing champion.
THE CARD
Manny Pacquiao (PHL) vs Jeff Horn (AUS) [w]
Welterweight | 12 x 3 minute rounds
WBO World Welterweight Title
Jerwin Ancajas (PHL) [w] vs Teiru Kinoshita (JPN)
Junior Bantamweight Title | 12 x 3 minute rounds
IBF World Junior Bantamweight Title
Michael Conlan (IRE) [w] vs Jarrett Owen (AUS)
Featherweight | 6 x 3 minute rounds
Shane Mosley Jr (USA) vs David Toussaint (AUS) [w]
Middleweight | 8 x 3 minute rounds
Damien Hooper (AUS) [w] vs Umar Salamov (RUS)
Light Heavyweight |10 x 3 minute rounds
WBO Int. & IBF Australasian Light Heavyweight Titles
Rasmanudin (IND) vs Brock Jarvis (AUS) [w]
Bantamweight | 6 x 3 minute rounds
Jonel Dapidran (PHL) vs Brent Dames (AUS) [w]
Junior Welterweight | 6 x 3 minute rounds
