Photo: Pacquiao Gets Blast From The Past at Wild Card

WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is having no shortage of visitors at the Wild Card Boxing Gym in Hollywood, California. But this time he received a visit from an opponent that he faced 17 years ago. Pacquiao came face to face with Thailand’s Chatchai Sasakul, who the Filipino boxer knocked out in 1998 to win the WBC flyweight title - Pacquiao's first of eight world titles. Sasakul was heading to Texas on business and decided to take a minor detour in order to visit Pacquiao.

Pacquiao is training for his mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 2nd from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

“I'll say hi and say good luck for his fight,” the retired boxer told ABS-CBN’s Dyan Castillejo. “I lost [to Pacquiao]… During that time, he was going up... He's so strong. Yeah, I think he can [beat Mayweather]. I think Floyd's fast but Manny Pacquiao now, he's fast too... he's a strong [puncher] more than Floyd.”