{"id":10152,"date":"2016-11-28T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T08:48:36","slug":"pacquiao-gym-opens-in-tokyo-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/pacquiao-gym-opens-in-tokyo-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pacquiao Gym\u2019 opens in Tokyo, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2016\/11\/27\/more-sports\/boxing-2\/boxing-megastar-pacquiao-seeks-deepen-ties-japan\/#.WDu9gkfHdlp\" target=\"_blank\">japantimes.co.jp<\/a>, World Boxing Welterweight Champion and Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao opened his first gym in Harajuku, Tokyo in Japan on November 25, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10153\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/gym.jpg\" alt=\"gym\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/gym.jpg 580w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/gym-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Consumers\/Pacquiao-to-open-Tokyo-gym-as-boxing-journey-continues?page=1\">asia.nikkei.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao attended the opening of &#8220;Pacquiao Gym\u201d and expressed in a press conference that it will serve \u201cto help the people do exercise&#8221; and to &#8220;discover a good boxer&#8221; in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a fitness center inside the gym, and it is open for a variety of people\u2014professional boxers or not\u2014to work out there.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Consumers\/Pacquiao-to-open-Tokyo-gym-as-boxing-journey-continues?page=1\">asia.nikkei.com<\/a>, the gym will be run by Japanese businessman Yoshihiro Agata, Pacquiao\u2019s longtime acquaintance, under a licensing deal, and will not be affiliated with the Japan Pro Boxing Association.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pacquiao is looking forward to having a much closer relationship with Japan, and he added that: \u201cWho knows? The next Manny Pacquiao could be from Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2016\/11\/27\/more-sports\/boxing-2\/boxing-megastar-pacquiao-seeks-deepen-ties-japan\/#.WDu9gkfHdlp\">japantimes.co.jp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Consumers\/Pacquiao-to-open-Tokyo-gym-as-boxing-journey-continues?page=1\">asia.nikkei.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Boxing Welterweight Champion and Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao opened his first gym in Harajuku, Tokyo in Japan on November 25, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5],"tags":[1139,1138],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launching-and-opening","category-news-and-current-events","tag-pacquiao-gym","tag-pacquiao-gym-tokyo-japan"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/gym.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}