‘Pacquiao Gym’ opens in Tokyo, Japan

In a report published by japantimes.co.jp, World Boxing Welterweight Champion and Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao opened his first gym in Harajuku, Tokyo in Japan on November 25, 2016.

Image grabbed from asia.nikkei.com

Pacquiao attended the opening of “Pacquiao Gym” and expressed in a press conference that it will serve “to help the people do exercise” and to “discover a good boxer” in Japan.

There will also be a fitness center inside the gym, and it is open for a variety of people—professional boxers or not—to work out there.

According to asia.nikkei.com, the gym will be run by Japanese businessman Yoshihiro Agata, Pacquiao’s longtime acquaintance, under a licensing deal, and will not be affiliated with the Japan Pro Boxing Association.

Meanwhile, Pacquiao is looking forward to having a much closer relationship with Japan, and he added that: “Who knows? The next Manny Pacquiao could be from Japan.”

 

Source: japantimes.co.jp, asia.nikkei.com