Pacquiao and the politics of boxing

One can count on the fingers of one hand the number of professional boxers who made successful forays into the political arena. Being the product of the school of hard knocks, the popular opinion is that a professional boxer is all brawn and no brain.

Then again, there have been a few who were able to break the stereotype. Former eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, an incumbent Congressman, recently announced his candidacy for the 2016 senatorial elections. The requirements for public office, as set by the Constitution, are really not that rigid. At the very least, one must be able to read and write. Pacquiao can read and while he is listed as a left-hander, he has the strongest write, err right, I have ever seen.