GEN. SANTOS CITY — Police Saturday detained a man who was beaten up by onlookers for throwing a beer bottle at world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao at a party, a police investigator said.
Pacquiao, the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super bantamweight champion, and his wife Jinky were on the dance floor at a private birthday party of their friend Teodora Ceta when he was assaulted by a local man, said senior police officer Rodrigo Torrento.
The suspect, identified by police as Reggie Teves, reportedly threw a beer bottle on the dance floor.
The apparently unprovoked attack prompted angry onlookers to go after Teves with their bare fists, Torrento told reporters.
Pacquiao was hit by broken bottle shards but was uninjured in the pre-dawn fracas in Barangay Labangan, police said. None of the suspect’s attackers were arrested.
