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50 free Manny Pacquiao trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Manny Pacquiao slept on the streets of Manila at 14, turned professional at 16 as a 106-pound junior flyweight, and ended up the only fighter in history to win world titles in eight weight divisions across four decades. Along the way he beat Barrera, Morales, De La Hoya, Hatton, Cotto and Margarito, sold more than 20 million pay-per-views, became a congressman, a senator and a presidential candidate, and sang on Jimmy Kimmel. This quiz follows the whole improbable story: the uncle who put gloves on him after Buster Douglas shocked Tyson, the first world title at 19, the two-weeks'-notice Ledwaba fight, Freddie Roach and the Wild Card Gym, the Alamodome, the 2:59 Hatton knockout, the Cowboys Stadium punch count, the Bradley robbery, the Márquez right hand, Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Keith Thurman at 40, the 2025 draw, plus the PBA, the MPBL, Sarangani, the Senate and the Billboard chart. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for fight night.
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Q 01Manny Pacquiao was born in Bukidnon province, on which island of the Philippines?
Mindanao
Mindanao. He was born in the town of Kibawe, and left the island as a teenager to escape poverty and become a boxer.
Q 02In which city was Manny Pacquiao raised?
General Santos
General Santos. He began boxing in an open-air park there after his uncle turned a room of his home into a makeshift gym.
Q 03As a teenager, Pacquiao lived on the streets of which city?
Manila
Manila. He stowed away on a boat to reach the capital, then slept rough on its streets while he trained at a boxing gym.
Q 04Which 1990 fight did Pacquiao say 'changed my life forever' when he watched it with his uncle?
Douglas vs. Tyson
Douglas vs. Tyson. Seeing the underdog win convinced the boy he would become a fighter, and his uncle Sardo Mejia started training him at home.
Q 05How did a too-light Pacquiao beat the scales on debut?
Weights in his pockets
Weights in his pockets. At 98 pounds he was several pounds under the limit, the reverse of the usual struggle to sweat down to it.
Q 06Why did Pacquiao wear heavier gloves in his first professional defeat?
He missed weight
He missed weight. Rustico Torrecampo then knocked him out in the third round, ending a run of eleven straight wins since his debut.
Q 07Pacquiao's first world title, won at 19 in 1998, came in which division?
Flyweight
Flyweight. He was behind on all three scorecards in Thailand when one left hand knocked out champion Chatchai Sasakul in the eighth round.
Q 08How did Pacquiao land his 2001 title shot against Lehlohonolo Ledwaba?
As a late substitute
As a late substitute. He stepped in for an injured challenger on a few weeks' notice and stopped the champion in six rounds in his American debut.
Q 09Pacquiao's long-time trainer Freddie Roach owns which Los Angeles gym?
Wild Card Gym
Wild Card Gym. Roach trained Pacquiao out of the Hollywood gym for 17 years and 34 fights before the boxer dropped him ahead of a 2018 bout.
Q 10Pacquiao beat the Mexican star Barrera in 2003 in which Texas city?
San Antonio
San Antonio. Barrera's own brother, working his corner at the Alamodome, stopped the fight in the eleventh round to spare him more punishment.
Q 11Which Mexican rival beat Pacquiao on points in March 2005?
Érik Morales
Érik Morales. All three judges scored it 115-113 after a deep cut opened over Pacquiao's right eye, but he stopped Morales in the rematch ten months later.
Q 12In 2006 Pacquiao was among the first holders of which newly created rank of the Philippines' Order of Lakandula?
Champion for Life
Champion for Life. The order had no honour for sporting champions, so President Arroyo added a rank by decree and named the boxer and a beauty queen among its first recipients.
Q 13Pacquiao knocked out David Díaz in 2008 to win a title at 135 pounds, in which division?
Lightweight
Q 21Who knocked Pacquiao out cold with one second left in the sixth round in December 2012?
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez. It was their fourth fight, and his counter right hand ended it one round after Pacquiao had put him on the canvas.
Q 22Pacquiao's first fight in China, against Brandon Ríos in 2013, was held in which city?
Macau
Macau. He arrived off two straight defeats, one of them a knockout, and won so widely at the Venetian casino resort that one judge gave him every round.
Q 23Whom did Pacquiao floor six times in November 2014 without stopping him?
Chris Algieri
Chris Algieri. He had already been down five times when his trainer told him between rounds that they were exactly where they needed to be.
Lightweight. Díaz was so thoroughly beaten when he fell face-first in the ninth round that the referee did not bother to count.
Q 14What was Pacquiao's December 2008 bout with Oscar De La Hoya billed as?
The Dream Match
The Dream Match. De La Hoya quit on his stool before the ninth round of a one-sided fight and announced his retirement within months.
Q 15Pacquiao knocked out Ricky Hatton with less than ten seconds left in which round?
The 2nd
The 2nd. Hatton had already been down twice in the first, and after one huge left hand he was counted out with a second of the round left.
Q 16Which opponent agreed to a 145-pound catchweight for a 2009 fight billed 'Firepower'?
Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto. Pacquiao floored the Puerto Rican in the third and fourth rounds and stopped him in the twelfth to take his welterweight title.
Q 17Which stadium hosted its first boxing card when Pacquiao fought Joshua Clottey in March 2010?
Cowboys Stadium
Cowboys Stadium. The March date had been held for Floyd Mayweather, and when those talks collapsed over drug testing, Pacquiao took his title defence to Arlington instead.
Q 18Which far bigger opponent did Pacquiao outpoint in November 2010 for a super welterweight title?
Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito. Pacquiao weighed in at 144.6 pounds for a 150-pound catchweight, gave away 17 pounds on the night, and still broke Margarito's orbital bone.
Q 19Which Rocky anthem was sung live for Pacquiao's ring walk against Shane Mosley in 2011?
Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger. Survivor's Jimi Jamison sang it after LL Cool J had led Mosley to the ring, and Mosley was on the canvas by the third round.
Q 20Who took Pacquiao's WBO welterweight title by a widely derided split decision in 2012?
Timothy Bradley
Timothy Bradley. ESPN scored it 119-109 for Pacquiao, Bradley himself heard the boos, and the WBO had five international judges review the tape.
Q 24Pacquiao said he fought Floyd Mayweather in 2015 with which injury?
A torn rotator cuff
A torn rotator cuff. Nevada officials refused him an anti-inflammatory shot about two hours before the fight, and he later had surgery on a significant tear in his right shoulder.
Q 25Pacquiao lost his WBO title to Jeff Horn in 2017 before more than 50,000 fans in which Australian city?
Brisbane
Brisbane. Former schoolteacher Horn won a unanimous decision in his home city, and after an outcry the WBO had five independent judges rescore it before letting the result stand.
Q 26Which long-time friend and assistant replaced Pacquiao's head trainer for the 2018 Lucas Matthysse fight?
Buboy Fernandez
Buboy Fernandez. With his old friend leading the corner in place of Freddie Roach, Pacquiao scored his first knockout win in nine years.
Q 27In which country did Pacquiao stop Lucas Matthysse in July 2018?
Malaysia
Malaysia. He floored Matthysse three times at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur and stopped him in the seventh round with a left uppercut.
Q 28Beating whom in July 2019 made Pacquiao, at 40, the oldest welterweight world champion ever?
Keith Thurman
Keith Thurman. Pacquiao knocked the previously unbeaten champion down in the first round and went on to win a split decision.
Q 29Why did Errol Spence Jr. withdraw from his scheduled August 2021 fight with Pacquiao?
A retinal tear
A retinal tear. Doctors found it in Spence's left eye and he went for surgery, so Yordenis Ugás stepped in on 11 days' notice and beat Pacquiao on points.
Q 30How did Pacquiao's July 2025 comeback fight against Mario Barrios end?
A majority draw
A majority draw. Two judges had it 114-114 and one 115-113 for Barrios, so the champion kept his WBC welterweight title against a 46-year-old challenger.