{"id":16019,"date":"2013-08-25T05:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-25T05:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T05:08:20","slug":"-Manny-Pacquiao-in-State-of-Bankruptcy-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16019","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao in State of Bankruptcy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We&#8217;re not surprised! Manny is such a sweet guy and he probably trusts everyone!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight-time division world champion Manny Pacquiao <strong>is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy<\/strong> after losing most of his money to election campaigns and other expenditures, a source close to situation told the Sun Star via ABS-CBN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pacquiao,<\/strong> a perennial member of the Forbes&#8217; &#8220;World&#8217;s Highest-Paid Athletes&#8221; list, is reportedly having financial trouble, according to a statement by the Filipino champ&#8217;s confidante Wakee Salud.<\/p>\n<p>Salud told Sun Star reporter Erwin Lirazan that Pacquiao shelled away a major bulk of his money to campaign funds (2010 and 2013), which reportedly amounted to roughly $9 million (as reported by ESPN writer Nigel Collins).<\/p>\n<p>According to Salud, <strong>Pacquiao also lost some of his money through charitable works<\/strong>, saying the Filipino champ just doesn&#8217;t know how to refuse such causes.<\/p>\n<p>Salud added that Pacquiao is more motivated than ever to fight because he finally realizes that he&#8217;s now losing money ever since succumbing to Juan Manuel Marquez in the sixth round of their welterweight clash last December.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Pacman&#8217;s chief-of-staff Haplas Fernandez shot down the report of Pacquiao&#8217;s bankruptcy<\/strong>, insisting the boxer still controls billions worth in assets.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Spin.ph, Fernandez said the report is completely baseless while Pacquiao&#8217;s mother Dionesia claimed that his son still owned a vast amount of assets located across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pacman&#8217;s chief-of-staff believes all of these hooplas are triggered by the boxer&#8217;s sale of his Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fernandez explained that Pacquiao is only selling the property ($2.7 million)<\/strong> because no one is actually living in there and property taxes are quite high to cover an unoccupied house.<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinospost.com\">www.latinospost.com<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not surprised! 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