Pacquiao to help set up academies in China
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PHILIPPINES sports icon Manny Pacquiao said yesterday he is to open a government-backed chain of boxing academies across China to train potential future world champions.
The Chinese government will embark on the first “Manny Pacquiao Boxing Education Institute” in Beijing, with others to be built elsewhere in China later, Pacquiao announced on Manila’s ABS-CBN television in a telephone call from Shanghai.
“The plan is to share with them my boxing knowledge,” said the 35-year-old World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, who has held world titles in eight weight divisions.
“With a population of 1.4 billion, they have so many boxers. So I think they would be able to produce good fighters, like world champions,” he added.
“The important thing is to teach them the basics.”
Pacquiao was in China this week as part of a global promotional tour ahead of his November 23 WBO welterweight title defense in China’s Macau against unbeaten American challenger Chris Algieri.
He said he had held talks with the Chinese authorities in the past two days for the “inauguration” of a company to undertake the project. “They (Chinese government) will put up the facilities, and if I have the time, I will visit them like once a month or once in three months to supervise them.”
Pacquiao did not reveal the project’s timetable or costs but defended his decision to open academies in China instead of his own country, laughing off suggestions his project would deprive the Philippines of more world champions.
“In the Philippines we don’t have a problem (with producing good boxers). What our boxers need is more support,” he said.
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