Pacquiao nominated to the 'top 49 most influential men'

[uzumaki]

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Filipino boxing superstar and current pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao has been officially nominated to the 'Top 49 Most Influential Men' of 2008 organized by AskMen.com.

The contest, now on its 3rd year and parades some of the world's most notable names like US Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Apple's Steve Jobs, actor-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, musician Paul McCartney and athlete Kobe Bryant as this year's nominees, determines the winner by online voting through AskMen.com's website.

Actor George Clooney took the top place of the inaugural contest while soccer phenom David Beckham won last year after more than a million votes were cast online.

Pacquiao came into the US boxing scene in 2001 with a 6-round drubbing of the then IBF superbantam champ Lehlohonolo Ledwaba and left a trail of destruction against some of Mexico's finest fighters in the years ahead to catapult him into the top of the boxing world where his popularity now pushes him to become a crossover star in the US and elsewhere.

Fellow boxing pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and UFC's Anderson Silva also made it to this year's nominees.

A total of 121 nominees coming from the business sector, politics, music, cinema, sports, culture and design industry comprise this year's batch of contestants.

According to AskMen.com's Johnny Testa in an e-mail to PhilBoxing.com, the purpose of the Top 49 is to determine which guys have had the biggest impact on the way other men dress, talk, buy, and think over the past 12 months. Anyone is free to vote and as often as they like.

The final results are scheduled to be revealed on Tuesday October 21st.

Follow this link to vote for your most influental men of 2008: Top 49 Men of 2008 - AskMen.com

[r3roble]

wow... nice one for pacquiao...

if ever he will be one of the most influencial people, i think he deserves it pud siguro kay look what happened when he has a fight... low crime rate, wlay traffic, cease fire ang military ug rebelde, magkahiusa ang mga Filipinos and etc. etc...

[vanguard]

Here's the list of candidates:

1.) Actors - Harrison Ford, Jet Li, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Steve Carrell, Charlie Sheen, Amitabh Bachnan, Stephen Colbert, Shia LeBeouf, Ben Stiller, Christian Bale, Sylvester Stallone, Paul Newman, Heath Ledger, James McAvoy, Daniel Craig, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen, Jason Statham, David Duchovny

2.) Musicians - Nick Cave, Paul McCartney, Armin van Buuren, Ezra Koenig, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Chris Martin, Robin Pecknold, Jay-Z, Jack White, Justin Vernon, Nas, Thom Yorke, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Trent Resnor, Tiesto, Craig Finn, Timbaland, Jonathan Meiberg

3.) Businessmen - Dietrich Stephan, John McCain, Kevin Rose, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ben Bernanke, George W. Bush, Steve Jobs, Andrew Farah, Francois Navarre, Fujio Cho, Steve Ballmer, Perez Hilton, Morgan Tsvangirai, Harvey Levin, Jerry Yang, Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos

4.) Athletes - Manny Ramirez, Shaun White, Lewis Hamilton, Manny Pacquiao, Rafael Nadal, Alexander Ovechkin, Fernando Torres, Michael Phelps, Anderson Silva, Tom Brady, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Pierce, Sidney Crosby, Kobe Bryant, Brett Favre, Jacques Rogge, Liu Peng, Floyd Mayweather, Sean Avery, Eli Manning, Jose Mourinho, Kyle Busch, Dana White, David Beckham, Alex Rodriguez

5.) Cultural Icons - Salman Rushdie, Chris Angel, Judd Apatow, Will Wright, Sam Houser, Rob Kay, Guy Ritchie, Randy Pausch, Jamie Oliver, Andrew Stanton, Ryan Seacrest, Steven Spielberg, Matthew Weiner, David Simon, J.J. Adrams, Junot Diaz, Christopher Nolan, Gordon Ramsay, Ronald D. Moore, Timur Bekmambetov

6.) Designers - Jim Nouvel, Scott Schuman, Stefano Pilati, John Varvatos, Tom Ford, Rem Koolhaas, Raf Simons, Jonathan Ive, Ralph Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Michael Bastian, Jacques Herzog, Dries Van Noten, Thom Browne

Not a really bad company for Manny Pacquiao to be with.

[rambutan]

^^ aw, abi nko naa sa manny under sa ACTORS.. ahehehe


athletes diay..





hehehe.. (pics c/o ricponsib)

[r3roble]

naunsa man tawn ni uy... alegre pud tong thread nga "ayoko nang magboxing".. lol..

[uzumaki]

hehe pang humor mana bro