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Pacquaio Joins World's Super Athletes in Nike Ad

Written by Ms. Confuse on Monday, April 28, 2008

Manny Pacquiao has scored another knockout! In his first international commercial and third NIKE TV ad entitled Sports Training, Pac-Man is shown with the world’s super athletes - Kobe Bryant, Cristiano Ronaldo, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, and Xiang Liu.

Manny’s longtime coach Freddie Roach said that Nike Sports selected 10 of the top athletes in the world to be a part of their sports training commercial, Pacquiao included. It was filmed in Roach’s Wild Card Gym in California.

Pacquiao is the first Filipino NIKE endorser. He is the first Asian boxer to win three world titles in three different weight divisions (WBC and Ring Magazine Super Featherweight Champion, Former world champion at IBF Super Bantamweight, and WBC Flyweight divisions).

Manny first started endorsing NIKE in 2006 . His first TV ad for the Fortune 500 sports giant was entitled Ang Mamatay nang Dahil sa ‘Yo, a thematic take-off from the last line of the Philippines’ national anthem.

The second TV ad which came out several months ago is entitled “Fast Forward” and shows Manny’s routine training. The third ad, which just came out for release in HongKong and the Philippines, is the multi-athlete TV ad featuring Manny side by side with five of the world’s great athletes such as basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and tennis great Maria Sharapova.

A few weeks ago, Pacquiao announced that another Nike commercial will be released soon, this time featuring Golf Star Tiger Woods, NBA Superstar Kobe Bryant and The Pacman in one explosive commercial.

When Manny first signed his Nike contract two years ago, people were wondering how much he got paid for his endorsement. A member of Team Pacman grinned then and simply said “definitely everybody happy.” For sure, no one can be happier than The Pacman.

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http://nike.com.ph/