Sleeping rough, selling fags & naming his daughter Queen Elizabeth.. welcome to the crazy world of Manny Pacquiao

By Mike Walters

Ricky Hatton's defining fight will be against a former tenbob boxer who named his daughter Queen Elizabeth after our sovereign monarch.

Manny Pacquiao used to sell cigarettes and sleep on the streets of Manila's urban sprawl, and the purse for his first fight was just 50p - which he gave his mum to buy rice and beans for a family living on the poverty line.

But the Pacman, who meets Hatton in a £40million superfight in Las Vegas on May 2, grew up to become the best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet. read more