article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao need not worry.
article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao is being pursued for £33m in unpaid taxes but remains a twice-elected and popular congressman and if Manny Pacquiao ran for president would win by a landslide. 
article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao is just over 5ft 6in but doubles as the player-coach of a professional basketball team, the Kia Carnival.
article_snippet.sent: There is no point comparing Manny Pacquiao with sporting contemporaries because there is no-one like Manny Pacquiao.
article_snippet.sent: To influence the biggest economy in the free world is beyond Manny Pacquiao, true.
article_snippet.sent: That Manny Pacquiao was corporate America’s poster boy.
article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao, in Manny Pacquiao own land, is different.
article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao is the people’s champion.
article_snippet.sent: Whatever the state of Manny Pacquiao accounts, Manny Pacquiao still pays 64 per cent more tax than any other citizen in the Philippines.
article_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao builds hospitals, Manny Pacquiao wealth fights natural disasters.
article_snippet.sent: No other sportsman would command this level of attention in one country; Manny Pacquiao fame has transcended the boxing ring.
article_snippet.sent: Size doesn't seem to matter when Pacquiao takes to the basketball court
article_snippet.sent: - well, it's Pacquiao team .
article_snippet.sent: On a more earthbound level, Pacquiao is Rudolph Valentino, The Beatles or pre-ignominy Michael Jackson, a star beyond familiar experience.
article_snippet.sent: Mayweather is a boxer; a great boxer, a very wealthy boxer, but a boxer, still.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao, while being the underdog in pure sporting terms on Saturday, is somehow more.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao has been elevated to higher ground.
article_snippet.sent: When Pacquiao arrives, the contrast between the hype and the human is immediate
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao’s effect on those of Philippine descent is clear.
article_snippet.sent: But, still, that’s Pacquiao.
article_snippet.sent: It is fair to say there are few middle-class boxers but even by the standards of a working man’s sport, Pacquiao’s story is exceptional.
article_snippet.sent: Mayweather grew up poor, but Pacquiao’s story was first-world poor; the electricity might have been cut off, and Mayweather family sometimes slept seven to a room, but there were safety nets, checks and balances.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao is a third-world survivor.
article_snippet.sent: Even then, Pacquiao looks scrawny, raw, unpolished – a street kid as much as a street fighter.
article_snippet.sent: Just as Andy Murray tried him whole life to erase the association of him home town, Dunblane, with unimaginable tragedy, so Manny Pacquiao’s mission is to reawaken feelings of pride in a nation whose global image has been defined by a corrupt political dynasty and a president’s wife, obsessed with shoes.
article_snippet.sent: It is this perception that Pacquiao, The National Fist – Pambansang Kamao – feels it is Pacquiao duty to address.
highlights_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao can't be compared with other sports stars - there's none like Manny Pacquiao .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Manny Pacquiao is a twice-elected and popular congressman in Manny Pacquiao homeland .
  