Baker's incredible life-sized Manny Pacquiao cake for Floyd Mayweather fight

ByDan Quarrell

Published 03/05/2015 at 08:04 GMT

It had been intended as a celebratory life-sized cake of Manny Pacquiao, but a baker in the Philippines can still enjoy the fruits of his labour, and the acclaim of many fans.

He may have suffered defeat at the hands of Mayweather, but at least Pacquiao can console himself by eating some of his shorts, or indeed his gloves.

Zach Yonzon, a baker in Manila, made this astonishing 66-inch chocolate cake with the aim of inspiring his man to victory - okay, so it did not quite work, but the cake still looked magnificent.

"Manny Pacquiao is world class, so we wanted to do something equally world class and the only way to do that is to create a cake that was extraordinary," Yonzon told the Associated Press.

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Remarkably, the cake took Yonzon, his wife and six other staff members a full day to make the cake, which weighed in at 70 pounds.

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Workers from a bakery show a life-size 70-kg chocolate cake of local boxing icon Manny Pacquiao to the media in Manila, Philippines

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The impressive structure was supported by a wooden frame with portions of his extremities made from Rice Krispies.

"It will be interesting to get people's reactions cutting and eating Manny Pacquiao," Yonzon told the AP. "My wife said we will start with the torso."

As a consolation cake, it really cannot be beaten.

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