![]() ![]() He couldn't have been further from reaching his lifelong dream of fighting on Pacquiao's undercard. ![]() Magsayo and Frances both sat at the MGM Grand crying as they contemplated their future on Christmas day in 2018. But the company never got him a fight and Magsayo bought out his contract to strike out on his own. Magsayo split from the Cebu-based company and headed to Las Vegas to sign with Now Boxing Promotions. Months after his first meeting with Pacquiao, Magsayo sat in nosebleed seats in Malaysia to watch the senator fight for the first time in person - a mauling of Lucas Matthysse on July 15, 2018.īy then, Magsayo's trajectory had slowed after contractual issues with the now-defunct ALA Promotions. The 26-year-old Magsayo, who also has over 200 amateur wins, will take to the ring ahead of Pacquiao's pay-per-view bout with Yordenis Ugas - a culmination of a circuitous route full of fits and starts. Magsayo's dreams to fight on a Pacquiao undercard will become a reality on Saturday in Las Vegas when he faces former world champion Julio Ceja. Mark Magsayo has ambitions to be one of the Philippines' all-time great boxers. After all, Pacquiao made his pro debut in 1995 - six months to the day before Magsayo was born. The Barrera fight is Magsayo's earliest memory of Pacquiao. At the time, 8-year-old Magsayo was selling pandesal and ice cream as a street vendor and had lost his first three amateur fights as a kid. Like many fighters from the Philippines, the Tacloban City-born, Bohol-raised Magsayo (22-0, 15 KOs) was inspired to start boxing when he watched Pacquiao become a bona fide star when he knocked out Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003. Pacquiao publicly praised the young fighter by passing a congratulatory bill and gifted him $5,000 out of his own pocket. The moment occurred on his wife and manager Frances' birthday and a week after he scored his 18th professional win. LOS ANGELES - Filipino featherweight Mark Magsayo was star-struck the first time he met his idol Manny Pacquiao on the Philippines Senate floor on Dec.
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