Manny Pacquiao Facing Class-Action Lawsuit over Injury

Manny Pacquiao Facing Class-Action Lawsuit over Injury: Latest Details, Reaction

Nevada Athletic Commission chairman Francisco Aguilar said Monday that the state attorney general’s office will look at why Pacquiao checked “no” a day before the fight on a commission questionnaire asking whether he had a shoulder injury.

“We will gather all the facts and follow the circumstances,” Aguilar said. “At some point we will have some discussion. As a licensee of the commission you want to make sure fighters are giving you up-to-date information.”

The issue for Pacquiao and his advisor, Michael Koncz, is that by signing the document, they “hereby swear under penalty of perjury, that the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge,” per the Daily Telegraph.

The basis for the lawsuit, then, will likely be that by failing to disclose his injury and lying on a legal document before fighting in an incredibly lucrative boxing match, Pacquiao committed a form of fraud. Whether that holds in court, however—and whether Pacquiao is ever tried for perjury or punished in anyway for this disclosure—remains to be seen.

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