Tension mounts as $520 million Mayweather-Pacquiao bout nears

By Phil Lutton
Updated July 17 2015 - 10:18am, first published April 25 2015 - 9:49am

If a popularity contest were to be staged tomorrow in the Philippines, a staunchly Catholic nation of more than 100 million people, only Jesus himself would top the country's pugilistic icon, Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao​.