Included are video clips detail­ing the struggle of the 31-year-old Filipino buzzsaw who rose from an obscure pandesal (Filipino bread) vendor to become the hot­test prizefighter in the world and the first Asian multi-titlist who be­came member of the a national legislative assembly (Philippine Congress).

Also, the HBO series features Margarito’s phenomenal ascen­sion to boxing immortality after winning the World Boxing Orga­nization jewels several times and his fall in disgrace and shame af­ter being temporarily terminated from the professional league after loading his fist with a foul substance last year.

The video shows how success­ful was Pacquiao’s last fight in the same arena early this year when he poleaxed pesky Joshua Clottey for 12 heats that prompted Cow­boys Stadium owner Jerry Jones to offer the multi-million arena for the Filipino congressman’s next fight on November 13.

Top Rank chief Bob Arum had heavily credited Jones for the re­alization of the Pacquiao-Clottey rumble which attracted a record number of paying audience. Ar­um’s partnership with Jones was considered as one of the biggest boxing news last year as the cav­ernous Cowboys Stadium was never offered as venue to any boxing promotion; not even big-time heavyweight bouts.

Jones originally wanted to watch the dream Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight in his sta­dium and he repeatedly asserted during our press conferences there that he would give his 100 percent full support to the block­buster bout.
Although it didn’t happen and might not happen in the future, Jones remains supportive of Ar­um’s promotion and didn’t raise a whimper when it was Margarito’s name that surfaced after a series of smorgasbord negotiations for Pacquiao’s next opponent.
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We in the Team Reyfort Media Group will be covering anew the Pacquiao-Margarito fight as part of our commitment to the read­ing public since time immemo­rial. Setting modesty aside, we have been consistent with our coverage of Pacquiao’s big fights in the United States since 2007, and we are extremely proud to represent the Filipino-Canadian community as news entity from the North America.

The special sports event is part and parcel of our major cal­endar of activities that included, among others, the Philippines Airlines (PAL) Invitational Golf championship in the Philippines, a yearly commitment buttressed by Vancouver’s A-1 golf players with Filipino blood running in their veins.
The Pacquiao-Clottey fight in Arlington in March this year co­incided with the launching of our special edition in the Living Today magazine where Pacquiao was the cover story.

We will go to Arlington again with full enthusiasm and opti­mism to once again bring to our dear readers the kind of sports entertainment that every Fil-Can household in Vancouver and the British Columbia wishes to read about: Manny Pacquiao and his conquest.
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We will see if members of the House of Representatives will come in full force to cheer for their colleague, Rep. Manny Pac­quiao, in the ringside on Novem­ber 13. Even when Pacquiao was not yet elected as congressman, many Philippine politicians, most­ly lawmakers and local govern­ment officials (municipal mayors and barangay captains included) were herded into a special PAL flight from LAX to Dallas to watch the Pacquiao-Clottey match.

We heard that as many as 40 members of the House of Rep­resentatives have “committed” to fly to Texas on separate flights and “on our own expenses.”
Some of the newly elected barangay officials allied with Pac­quiao are also reportedly coming to Arlington. As long as no taxpayers’ money will be used during the trip, every­body has the right to even make a trip around the world.