I was like that with Tyson. When I was growing up it was around the time where Mike was just destroying people. I wouldn't exactly call him a hero, but when people got in school-yard fights and someone got knocked out or beat up, someone would say something around the lines of "he just got Tysoned!"

To tell you the truth, even though I know that many hate on him, Manny Pacquiao is the epitome of a hero to Filipinos. I'm an American, but my nationality is Filipino. It's very rare anyone from the Philippines becomes world famous, let alone a world champion. Filipino adults live-and-die by everything he does in the ring. And my little cousins (numerous kids, ages between 4 through 13) shadow box each other and say Pacquiao's name as they do it.