{"id":17177,"date":"2014-06-26T23:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17177"},"modified":"2014-06-26T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:34:02","slug":"pacquiao-fil-am-gold-medalist-nominated-for-espn-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/pacquiao-fil-am-gold-medalist-nominated-for-espn-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao, Fil-Am gold medalist nominated for ESPN awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10371\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao. Photo by Tracy Lee \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao. Photo by Tracy Lee \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is set to receive a nomination for Best Fighter of the Year,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">while another Fil-Am paralympic racer also gets a nomination at\u00a0ESPN&#8217;s Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao will be contending with his co-boxer\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and mixed martial artists Jon &#8220;Bones&#8221; Jones, Andre Ward and Ronda Rousey in the same category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao deserves a nomination after he regained his\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">WBO welterweight title from Timothy Bradley in a decisive rematch, according to ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;He also beat Brandon Rios for the vacant WBO International welterweight crown,&#8221; the American sports network said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, F<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ilipino-American Paralympics wheelchair racing champion Raymond Martin will also get a nomination for his five medals at the\u00a0\u00a0IPC Athletics Championships last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Martin, who was the first man to record five gold medal wins in the said competition, was also\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">chosen as Male Paralympic Athlete of the Year in 2013 by the United States Olympic Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also topped men&#8217;s T52 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m races and dominated the same events at the\u00a0US Paralympics Track and Field National Championships in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is set to receive a nomination for Best Fighter of the Year,\u00a0while another &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[6013,6012],"class_list":["post-17177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-espn-awards","tag-manny","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}