article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao was born in General Santos City, 600 miles south of the capital Manila, a part of the region now consumed by terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao knew tin-shanty poverty, hungry-every-day poverty, bare-foot poverty; Pacquiao knew what it was to be filthy poor, unable to bathe, dirty, unschooled.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao father abandoned his family when Manny was small, came home unannounced one day, killed, cooked and ate Manny dog, and then left again.
article_snippet.sent: When Pacquiao departed for the capital Manila the capital Manila wasn’t out of up-by-the-bootstraps ambition, but basic human necessity.
article_snippet.sent: his family couldn’t feed Pacquiao; but maybe Pacquiao could feed Pacquiao.
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao slept rough, Pacquiao sold doughnuts for loose change and fought in the back streets for little more –
article_snippet.sent: The iconic black and white images that have since emerged of Pacquiao at Pacquiao Manila gym at the age of 17 were taken three years after Pacquiao arrived in the capital Manila, and 10 fights into Pacquiao professional career.
article_snippet.sent: These images of a 17-year-old Manny Pacquiao training in Manila were published ahead of the world’s richest fight .
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao left Pacquiao home as a 14-year-old and headed for Manila, the capital of the Philippines .
article_snippet.sent: Pacquiao turned professional aged 16 and had 10 fights by the time These images of a 17-year-old Pacquiao training in Manila were taken .