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The stamp shows the athlete, bare-chested and armed with red boxing gloves and his trademark
goatee. A caption calls him the "People's Champ."
"Manny Pacquiao is the first Filipino athlete to be immortalized in a stamp," explained Melanie Cruz,
chief of corporate communications for the Philippine Postal Corporation.
In this island nation, Pacquiao is much more than just a boxer.
"He's my idol!" exclaimed Noreli Domingo, a Filipina visiting Manila from her adopted home in
Hawaii.
Pacquiao is an elected member of the national Congress, the coach and player on his own
professional basketball www.top-boxing-gloves.com/ team, and a real-life rags-to-riches success
story. He famously went from a childhood of hunger and poverty to becoming one of the world's
highest paid athletes.
In the weeks running up to his bout with Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas, Pacquiao released a music
video. The song he sings is basically a love letter to the Philippines.
The boxer croons into a microphone over images of destruction in Tacloban, the town devastated by
a typhoon in 2013.
Entitled "I fight for the Filipinos," it mixes footage of Pacquiao battling in the ring with video of his
smiling countrymen.
Macaso said he would add newly purchased t-shirts to his existing collection of Pacman memorabilia,
which includes Pacquiao shoes, boxing gloves, a mouthpiece and jump rope.
At the shop, fans can also buy a Pacquiao dart board as well as the boxer's very own cologne. The
name on the bottle says "Scent of the Champion."
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