by Lem Satterfield
WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, an eight division champion and currently the WBC's junior middleweight champion, has been selected by CNN as being among its Top 20 Stories That Changed Our World In 2010.
During 2010, Pacquiao sandwiched two victories in the ring over as many different weight classes -- one each in March and November -- around an upset victory in May that earned him a congressional seat in his native Sarangani Province of the Philippines.
Pacquiao is listed at No. 19 in the rankings, along with the following description:
The fighter of the last decade could be the politician of the next. In his second run at public office in May, Manny Pacquiao beat a heavily favored opponent from a powerful political family by a landslide in congressional elections held in the Philippine province of Sarangani.
A man whose crossover appeal has transformed him into an international superstar, Pacquiao, on the day after Christmas, was named as Sports Illustrated's No. 1 boxing story for 2010 in a story authored by the magazine's columnist, Bryan Armen Graham.
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
