Manny

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[CROWD CHATTERlNG]

[BOXlNG BELL RlNGlNG]

ANNOUNCER:
Let's get ready to rumble!

[CROWD CHEERlNG]

And fighting out of the red corner,

from Sarangani province, Philippines,

Manny Pacquiao.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
Is it round one

or round 37?

Pacquiao starts off

with a straight left hand,

fires two jabs.

Neither fighter has landed yet.

[CROWD CHANTlNG]

COMMENTATOR 2:
Good left hand

by Pacquiao backs Marquez up.

Another good left hand sock

by Pacquiao.

He's finding Marquez's chin,

hurling with his left hand.

And Marquez hasn't countered back.

[CROWD GROANS]

...by Marquez, and for the first time,

in four fights,

Manny Pacquiao has been knocked out.

That's the first time in 39 rounds

that Juan Marquez has been able to

put Manny Pacquiao down,

and he did it with his signature

right hand, over to Dutch.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
We got to be careful

though because once again,

Pacquiao is sitting down

on his punches,

and Pacquiao's giving him

some face.

COMMENTATOR 2:
And there goes

the knockdown.

Manny Pacquiao evens up

the knockdown count

as he puts Marquez on the canvas.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
Pacquiao's feeling

good now after knocking Marquez down.

And, his job is to get

out of the round.

COMMENTATOR 2:
Marquez

can't retaliate.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
Marquez is hurt bad.

Marquez is hurt bad.

[CROWD CHEERlNG]

Marquez won't hold.

Looks as though Marquez's nose

is broken.

These are big shots Pacquiao's

been landing on him.

There's another right there.

And, another right there.

COMMENTATOR 2:
Marquez is

off balance again.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
Marquezjust keeps back

and tries to lure back

to nail Pacquiao

with the right hand.

[BOXlNG BELL RlNGlNG]

COMMENTATOR 2:
And, that

seems like a knockdown.

He's not getting up, Jimmy.

COMMENTATOR 1 :
Get up, get up, get up.

He's not getting up!

COMMENTATOR 2:
No,

he's been knocked out!

A sensational fight!

MANNY:
Why do I box?

Why do I fight?

NARRATOR:
Boxing takes

so much from a man.

No other sport asks a man

to sacrifice himself so deeply.

Manny Pacquiao has been in the sport

for twenty long years.

He knows the ruthlessness of boxing,

better than anyone.

But, if you're a fighter,

truly a fighter,

then you get back up.

You fight again.

[CAMERAS CLlCKlNG]

[lNDlSTlNCT CHATTERlNG]

-Manny.

-How are you?

How you doing, boss?

Good to see you.

Knock 'em dead, all right?

As soon as you're ready,

we'll bring in about 1 0-1 5 guys here,

to talk to you for ten minutes,

All the way to the side here.

-Hello, hi.

-Hello, nice to see you.

MAN 1 :
Manny, how do you

fight overconfidence?

You've got all these people here,

you've got so many people in your ear,

telling you how great you are.

MAN 2:
Do you think you'll go down

as an all time great in boxing?

Mmm, l don't know.

[ALL LAUGHlNG]

MAN 2:
Don't you care though

what people think about you?

People say Muhammad Ali

is one of the greatest evers.

Don't you want people

to talk about you like that?

[MANNY SPEAKlNG FlLlPlNO]

People tell me about my greatness.

They want to know how l got here.

Manny, right here.

With the one and only, Manny Pacquiao.

Who else do you want to fight after...

Everyone around the world knows you.

You're a great humanitarian.

Do you need to win this fight

by knockout...

[MANNY SPEAKlNG FlLlPlNO]

As l look back on my life, there have

been so many twists and turns,

The people who celebrate me now can't

really understand where l come from.

[CAMERAS CLlCKlNG]

NARRATOR:
Manny was born

on December 17, 1978

in General Santos City.

The Philippines was

in the midst of civil war.

The dictator, Ferdinand Marcos,

had imposed martial law.

[LOUD EXPLOSlON]

The country was in bloody chaos.

In the 1970s and early 1980s,

rebellion raged

in the southern provinces.

Manny was raised in

the shadows of war.

[MANNY SPEAKlNG FlLlPlNO]

All l can remember is

that we were very poor.

Our home was a small nipa hut.

The roof and walls were made of leaves

from a coconut tree.

[SPEAKlNG lN FlLlPlNO]

Our house stood there - where

the small coconut tree now stands.

That was where our house was.

That was before, now it's gone.

[LAUGHlNG]

So that's it...

it brings back memories.

My mom took care of us

because my father wasn't around.

All of my siblings worked

and looked for jobs

so we could survive and eat.

Sometimes we would go

days without eating.

There! They started

to pull in the fishnets.

At the crack of dawn, our mother

would wake us up to pray the rosary.

We would pray to the Lord...

"What kind of life will we have

when we grow up?"

We had nothing.

Then we would look for work.

l would go fishing.

l spoke to the owner of a fishing net

and asked if l could help

so l can have a share of the fish.

At first, they were hesitant, because

l was too young, and what do l know?

They gave me a chance because l was

desperate and really needed the job.

And we needed to eat.

Then l had a catch.

l had a share of the fish,

and then l sold half.

Then l brought the other half home

for us to eat.

One time, this happened between

the rebel and the army.

The rebel, first they ask for water.

Because our house is

on the top of the mountain

and it's hard to get there.

And then, after twenty minutes,

the group of the army

passed by our house.

They asked of my mother,

the group of people with arms.

And, my mother is like,

"No, we didn't see the group."

The army left and after maybe,

twenty to thirty minutes,

500 meters from our house...

[GUNFlRE]

l saw the army

cut the head of the rebel.

l was five years old.

We decided to go down

and live in the town,

which is Sarangani.

ln the town, the first time,

l saw a car and

l'm so scared of the car.

l said, "Oh, what is that?"

Then, the jeepney,

and the tricycle,

everytime that they pass,

and l'm hiding because l don't know

what is that.

[BLOWS WHlSTLE]

The television, you know,

l was so amazed because,

you know,

l saw people in the, what is it,

in the screen

and l go,

you know, at the back

of the television and looking for,

you know, there's

a lot of people there.

[CHUCKLES]

l go, like, this is the TV, here...

This is the TV, and l go like this.

Looking for people.

NARRATOR:
: Manny dropped out of school

in the sixth grade.

Going hungry week in and week out,

he sold warm donuts on the street

to survive.

He would go without eating

so his mother or siblings could eat.

By age 1 2, Manny had become

the man of the family.

No longer able to afford

to live on their own,

his family was forced to move in

with Manny's uncle.

[CROWlNG]

[SARDO SPEAKlNG FlLlPlNO]

Manny was the first person l trained.

Even without shoes, he jogged.

And l saw in him, his passion.

l also saw they didn't have money

to send him to school.

That's why l trained him.

These were the first gloves Manny used

when l started to teach him boxing.

When he used them...

...he was only 1 2 years old.

These are the memories...

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