2015, April 20. Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao
Litho Offset, Amstar Company, Inc., Perf 14
Singles, Sheets of 40, Souvenir Sheets on One
10p Manny Pacquiao, People's Champ - Singles (500,000)
40p Souvenir Sheets of One (30,000)
Layout Artist: Rodine Teodoro
First Day Covers: Manila
5,000 Official FDC Envelopes Printed (2,500 for stamps and 2,500 for souvenir sheets)
Privately prepared FDCs, 6 sets for Stamps & Souvenir Sheets; 10 Maximum Cards
PHLPost advises the public Fight of the Century Pacquiao stamps early
Starting Monday, April 20, barely two weeks before the much anticipated and probably the biggest challenge to Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao against the undefeated American Floyd Mayweather Jr., Filipino fans will have the chance to savor the excitement by buying the special limited copies of the “Fight of the Century” Pacquiao postage stamps to be released by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost).
A favorite of many stamp collectors due to Manny Pacquiao’s tremendous popularity worldwide, the “Fight of the Century” Philippine postage stamp can be a acquired for a little as P10 only. PHLPost is set to issue 500,000 copies featuring a photo of Pacman in fighting stance.
PHLPost advises the public to buy early in order to get the special limited collectors copy of the stamps. Souvenir sheets and official first day cover shall be available at the Central Post Office, Door 203, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila and area post offices nationwide. For inquiries, please call 527-01-08 or 527-01-32.
Aside from the regular stamp, Some 30,000 copies of the souvenir sheet will also be released at P40 each.
“This “Fight of the Century” postage stamps featuring the nation’s pride and world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is a fitting tribute to his exceptional character and ability that truly unites the nation whenever he fights,” Postmaster General Josie Dela Cruz said.
Before PHLPost start printing these stamps, it was first approved by the Philippine Stamp Committee composed of representatives from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Philippine Philatelic Federation (PPF), and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. PHLPost in-house artist Rodine Teodoro did the lay-out of the Pacquiao regular stamps, the souvenir sheets and official first day cover.
Manny Pacquiao
Filipino Boxer and Politician
Written by: Nigel Collins
Manny Pacquiao, in full Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, by name Pac-Man (born December 17, 1978, Kibawe, Bukidnon province, Mindanao,Philippines), professional boxer, media celebrity, and politician, who became world-famous for winning boxing titles in several weight classes. His rise from abject poverty to the pinnacle of his sport was made even more remarkable by his life outside the ring. The charismatic “Pac-Man” was an idol and a unifying force in the Philippines, where his unprecedented popularity led to commercial endorsements, movies, television shows, CDs, and his image on a postage stamp.
Pacquiao left home as a teenager and stowed away on a ship bound for Manila, where he became a boxer. He made his professional debut as a junior flyweight on January 22, 1995, at the age of 16. Many of his early bouts were televised on a program called Blow by Blow, where his all-action style and boyish smile quickly made him a favourite with Filipino boxing fans. He won his first major title on December 4, 1998, knocking out Thailand’s Chatchai Sasakul to capture the World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight title. After failing to make weight, however, he lost the title to Medgoen Singsurat of Thailand in September 1999. Pacquiao moved up in weight class, and on June 23, 2001, in his first fight in the United States, he scored a sixth-round knockout of Lehlo Ledwaba to win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior featherweight title. Following four successful defenses, he knocked out Mexico’s Marco Antonio Barrera on November 15, 2003, to become The Ring magazine featherweight champion.
Over the next several years, Pacquiao engaged in a series of high-profile fights, winning the World Boxing Association (WBA) and IBF featherweight titles, the WBC and The Ring’s junior lightweight titles, and the WBC lightweight title. His rise was aided by American trainer Freddie Roach, who gradually transformed the left-handed slugger into a multifaceted boxer without detracting from his natural aggression or punching power. He was the Boxing Writers Association of America and The Ring’s Fighter of the Year in 2006 and 2008.
On December 6, 2008, Pacquiao faced and thrashed American boxing star Oscar De La Hoya in a celebrated nontitle welterweight bout in Las Vegas. By then Pacquiao had become a complete fighter, combining excellent footwork, blazing speed, and a vastly improved defense, and he was widely considered, pound for pound, the world’s finest boxer. In addition, Pacquiao’s popularity as a pay-per-view (PPV) boxing attraction had increased steadily since 2002, but the match with De La Hoya was his breakthrough as a global phenomenon. The fight sold approximately 1.25 million buys, generating roughly $70 million in PPV revenue, one of the largest PPV grosses in history for a non-heavyweight bout.
On May 2, 2009, Pacquiao won The Ring’s junior welterweight championship (his sixth weight class as a champion and his ninth as a professional boxer) with a spectacular one-punch second-round knockout of England’s Ricky Hatton. On November 14 he added another championship belt—in a record seventh weight class—when he defeated Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico in 12 rounds to take the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title. Pacquiao defended that title on March 13, 2010, in Arlington, Texas, by defeating Ghanaian boxer Joshua Clottey in 12 rounds. He increased his weight-class titles record to eight when, on November 13, 2010, he soundly defeated WBC super welterweight championAntonio Margarito, who outweighed Pacquiao by 17 pounds at the time of the fight.
Pacquiao had a 15-bout winning streak that came to an abrupt end in June 2012 when he lost his WBO welterweight title to Timothy Bradley in a controversial split decision. In December 2012 he lost a non-title bout to Juan Manuel Márquez—against whom Pacquiao had previously won two fights and drawn another—when he was knocked out in the sixth round. It was the first time Pacquiao had been knocked out since Singsurat did so in 1999. He regained the WBO welterweight belt in April 2014 by beating Bradley in a unanimous decision.
In 2003 Pacquiao was voted Person of the Year in the Philippines over Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who was then two years into her term as president of the country. Four years later, in 2007, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the national legislature. He then returned to boxing full-time, but a few days after his November 2009 bout he formed a new “local” political party, the Peoples’ Champ Movement, back in the Philippines. He again declared his candidacy for a legislative seat, for a district in Mindanao, and, on May 10, 2010, won by an overwhelming margin.
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