This is exactly the reason why I don't want Pacquiao to win...

I don't get it. I know, we should be proud of the People's Champ, but why the euphoria?

If Manny wins a seat in the Congress, I'm afraid more people will die.

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3 die of heart attack during Pacquiao bout

By Marrah Erika Lesaba, Jeannette Andrade, Edwin Fernandez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 16:33:00 05/03/2009

Filed Under: Pacquiao, Politics, Weather, Television

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) Three people died due to heart attack from excitement while watching boxing hero Manny Pacquiao beat British Ricky Hatton on Sunday, police said.

In Batangas province, 64-year-old tricycle driver Francisco Lalongisip, collapsed in his neighbor’s house at around noon, at the same time Pacquiao knocked Hatton down, said Police Officer 2 Amiel Sanhi.

Lalongisip, a resident of Ilat South village, San Pascual town, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bejasa General Hospital in the same town, Sanhi said.

Lalongisip was so excited about the fight that the first thing he did in the morning was to go to his neighbor’s house to watch the television broadcast, Sanhi said.

In Manila, a 49-year old Vic Ocampo also died of a heart attack at a Manila hospital just as he rejoiced at seeing Hatton fall on the canvas.

Ocampo, a resident of 1154 Casanas Street in the Sampaloc district, was watching the free showing of the live Pacquiao-Hatton match at the Dapitan Sports Complex along with other boxing fans when he collapsed at around 11:50 a.m., just as Pacquiao knocked out Hatton in the second round.

Ocampo was rushed by standby medics to the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival by attending doctors, said Senior Police Officer 1 Arnulfo Amor of the Manila Police District (MPD) Sampaloc Station 4.

In Tantangan town, South Cotabato province, 52-year-old farmer Rolando Cabang fell to the ground gasping for air at the start of the second round, said Senior Police Officer Armand Nuno of the town police, who is also a relative of the victim.

“It’s his fate,” Nuno said, adding that relatives should have prevented Cabang from watching the fight.

Elsewhere in the Southern Luzon region, politicians used the Pacquiao- Hatton fight to advertise their names in several cable television channels in Laguna province as sponsors of the live fight from Las Vegas.

In Cavite City, about 1,000 people gathered to see the fight at the town stadium. Xyzie Ybañez, one of the spectators, said local politicians running for the 2010 elections provided the venue for the free viewing of the fight.

“Our wait was even longer than the fight,” she said.

A parish in Laguna had to move the regular meeting of the parish pastoral council in the evening as officers needed to witness fight.

Romeo Velasco and wife Luisa left their hometown in Calamba City in Laguna, Sunday, to make sure they would be early at the Pasig Sports Complex to see the fight.

He said that as early as 6 a.m., the line for the free viewing reached about two kilometers.

In Pila town, Laguna, two suspected drug pushers were arrested as police continued patrols during the Pacquiao fight, said Senior Superintendent Manolito Labador, Laguna police provincial director.