BY REY DANSECO
REIGNING WBC Diamond belt holder Manny Pacquiao was discharged from the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in Manila, Philippines early Tuesday morning (Monday in Mexico and US) after he was downed of stomach pains due to acid reflux (ulcer) Sunday afternoon.
Pacquiao posed for photographs with medical personnel in the hospital before a convoy of cars drove him to the television giant GMA 7 studios to film his sequences for his own sitcom called “Show me the Manny”.
The former three-division WBC champion (flyweight, super featherweight, lightweight) will go back to Gen. Santos City and Sarangani province in Southern Philippines with his family.
The 31-year old seven-division world champion, actor and Congressman-elect will be very busy in the next couple of days.
On the first day of June, Pacquiao, who was elected representative of the Sarangani province to the Philippine Congress last May 10 election, will fly to New York with his wife Jinkee and their kids for vacation.
The People’s Champ will also grace the 85th annual Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) Awards Banquet on June 4 at the Roosevelt Hotel in 45 East 45th Street in New York, NY.
Aside from the BWAA’s newly named “Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year” award for 2009, Pacquiao also got the “Fighter of the Decade” honors. It is his third BWAA “Fighter of the Year” award, tying him with Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield for the most in the history of the organization.
Pacquiao is expected to watch the junior middleweight title bout between champion Yuri Foreman and challenger Miguel Cotto at the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx on June 5.
Beginning July 1, Pacquiao will begin his 3-year tenure as lawmaker.
Pacquiao may make his farewell fight on Nov. 13 possibly against Floyd Mayweather Jr in a bout for the distinction as the real pound-for-pound king.
At the hospital, Dr. Gina Bagsik injected Pacquiao with dextrose and went endoscopy and other routine tests, where they found out a break in the lining in his stomach.
Bagsik classified the disease as “ordinary” and “not serious illness”.
Pacquiao also experienced the same ailment in 2006 and 2007, when he was confined at the same hospital.
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