Manny Pacquiao set for a New Tittle as a congressman

World Boxing champiom Manny Pacquiao

set for new title as a congressman

..Unofficial results with about 80% of votes counted showed Pacquiao delivering a knockout punch, winning double the number of votes for his rival in a chair in the southern province of Sarangani.

World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao appears to have won a new title -- congressman in the Philippine House of Representatives -- based on partial election results released Tuesday.

Friends of the boxer said Pacquiao was already preparing a victory party, although the release of full results has been delayed by the slow delivery of vote tallies to the provincial capital.

This year, the welterweight champion, two of the world's highest-paid sportsmen, chose to run in another district.

Top boxing promoter Bob Arum, who visited the Philippines during the campaign, has said that even if Pacquiao was selected, they hoped to convince him to fight American boxer Floyd Mayweather.

"I believe that the fight will happen as early as November this year," the founder of Las Vegas-based Top Rank promotion was quoted as saying on the news portal of broadcaster ABS-CBN.

Arum said they hoped to introduce the Philippine boxer as "Congressman Manny Pacquiao" during his next match. Both Pacquiao & Mayweather have been called the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world & a bout between them is expected to have two of the biggest paydays in history.

But negotiations for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight fell through earlier in the year when the American insisted on Olympic-style drug testing, which the Filipino rejected as intrusive before a bout.