Filipinos know that the only sport event that can clear the streets from traffic better than a UAAP Ateneo Lasalle game is a Pacquiao fight!
Aside from the streets clearing, malls have lesser traffic, prompting cinemas to offer the bout instead during actual fight time. The same can be said as a marketing strategy by bigger restaurants that can afford pay per view to draw eating and drinking crowds. Other effects include electricity usage going up, and crime rate plunging to virtual zero.
Manila cab driver Christopher Piolo plans to take his first Sunday off in four months this weekend. The reason: Manny Pacquiao is boxing.
Playoffs time once again, and we can't afford to stay home and watch NBA. Much to bosses' dismay, there are several ways lowly workers like us could watch basketball discreetly while still managing to get the work done.
Filipino pride southpaw Manny Pacquiao puts Ricky Hatton to sleep in the second round, taking a historic win with a devastating left to the chin that sent the Englishman to hospital.
Ricky Hatton continues to manage himself. His dad Ray is his business adviser. ‘I don’t make a move without my dad saying,’ Hatton says. ‘When I first turned professional, I went to work for my dad. I was carpet fitting, and I was earning £150 to 200 a week. Then I turned pro at 18, and all of a sudden I was earning £3,000 (213,000 pesos) a fight. I had nine fights in my first year, so that’s not a bad living for an 18-year-old.
With our most recent MannyP article about his net worth, it is only logical that we do one that touches on his not so frugal spending. Here are a few of his documented expenses:
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