On November 29, 2025, Manny Pacquiao Promotions staged its first event at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California, co-produced by Limitless Entertainment Group. The card included the professional debut of Jimuel Pacquiao. A first professional fight is a beginning that a young athlete will carry for the rest of a career, and I think about legacy in moments like that more than in any number on a balance sheet.
I have written before about legacy as what you leave behind. This piece is about the other half: what I am actually doing about it.
The Definition I Hold Myself To
When I am asked what legacy means to me, this is my answer:
“It’s not about the wealth I accumulate or the companies I build, but it’s about the lives I transform, the barriers I break, opportunities I create for others, and proving that no matter where you start from, how far you fall, or how impossible the odds seem, there are no limits to what you can become.”
A definition only matters if you can check yourself against it. So I break it into parts I can measure in real decisions: whose life changed, which barrier fell, who got an opening they would not have had, and whether my own story gives someone else a reason to keep going.
Opportunities I Create for Others
The clearest test is whether other people end up owning something because of work I started.
When I founded KORE Fit Living in 2011, the first franchise I sold was an existing store in Burnaby, British Columbia, converted from Reflex Nutrition. That happened before our first corporate store had even opened. In the first year, about 30 people applied to open a franchise. Each application was someone who wanted a business of their own, and a franchise system is one of the few structures that hands that chance to people who did not invent the brand.
Partnership works the same way. In 2020 I co-founded the skin care brand Amarose with Amanda Saccomanno, and she owns half of it. I would rather build alongside someone who has a real stake than build alone.
A Home for the Next Generation of Fighters
Boxing has given me a second way to act on this. Limitless Entertainment Group works on fighter development and sponsorship support, as well as events and media. That matters because talent alone rarely carries a young fighter far. They need fights, exposure, sponsors and a place to train.
That last piece is why Pacquiao Prime Boxing exists. It sits on North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, in the space that once housed Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, and it is built around boxing instruction and high-performance training for professional fighters and athletes. A gym is a practical thing: a ring, a schedule and coaches who show up. For a young fighter, it can also be the first place where someone takes their ambition seriously.
Starting Earlier: Youth Health
The barrier I know best is my own body. At my heaviest I weighed more than 450 pounds. I lost more than 250 pounds in total, and I did it as an adult, rebuilding habits I had carried for years.
That is why, in 2022, I partnered with HealthCorps on youth health and wellness programs. If a young person builds good habits early, they never have to fight the battle I fought. Of all the parts of my definition, this is the one where prevention does more than any comeback story.
Proof That Where You Start Is Not Where You End
The last part of my definition is the one I can only offer through my own life. I was born in New Delhi. My family moved to Montreal in 1991, and at 12 I was publishing wrestling news websites from my bedroom. Ambition has cost me tens of millions of dollars and a lot of sleepless nights along the way. I am still building.
I do not share that to impress anyone. I share it because someone starting from a bedroom, a bad diagnosis or a bad year needs evidence that the starting point does not set the limit. If my story gives one person that evidence, it has done more than any company I could list.
The philosophy behind all of this is in Legacy Through Impact. The boxing work is on the Sports & Boxing page, and the franchise story is in the KORE Fit Living profile. The measure I care about is simple: what other people go on to build.