What makes boxing in the Philippines so popular?

manny pacquiao and many other filipino fighters

a BIG ROLE model to the filipino people because NOT

only do they fight for them selves and there family they also

FIGHT and STAND for there country THE PHILIPINE ISLANDS

even the americanized FILIPINO fighters in America STILL REPRESENT

THE filipino culture. PINOY PARIN MUBUHAY ANG PILIPINAS

means ( Still filipino, long live the Philippines. )