For Manny Pacquiao, the Philippines’ foremost sports hero, whose fighting pose adorns PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) Global’s pre-paid phone cards along with lady golf champion Jennifer Rosales, the day of reckoning is at hand. As a nation prays fervently for his success the 25 year old ring gladiator from General Santos who has held his countrymen enthralled with his fists of fury and won recognition from boxing fans around the world as among the top pound-for-pound fighters, promises to wage war in an attempt to wrest the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation featherweight belts from the methodical and calculating Mexican world champion Juan Manuel Marquez, at the plush MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada today.
