The career of Pacman is coming to an end next year!
Bob Arum had dinner with Manny Pacquiao last week and revealed to ESPN that the Philippines legendary boxer is planning to retire next year. He already has a fight planned for April 9th, and his opponent has yet to be picked his team and Top Rank Promotions (hopefully Terence Crawford).
After earning $180 million last May in the loss against Floyd Mayweather, Pacman is looking to top off his career with one final bout to cap off his illustrious career of 20 years. Take a look below at Arum’s breakdown of exactly what Manny said during their dinner over the week.
Manny told me this fight on April 9 will be his last fight. I’m telling you what he told me last week at dinner in New York. We talked very seriously and hopefully, by the middle of May I will have been elected senator in the Philippines and at that point I cannot engage in boxing because I need to focus on the senate and I have to be in attendance. There are hundreds of congressmen but if he wins the senate seat he has to be there to do the work. They do the real work in the senate in the Philippines, not just make a lot of bullshit speeches like they do in the congress. It’s a real job and if Manny is serious about wanting to be president, these six years in the senate would be like an audition and for him to show his people that he really is a serious politician. My deal with Manny is that after I have my conversations with all the likely contenders I go to Manny and (adviser) Michael (Koncz) and lay everything out and let them pick who Manny wants to fight. I gather information, I explain to them the details of each deal and if they ask my opinion I give them my opinion. There’s always been a lot of talk but all it’s been is talk, so my feeling is we would do it in Las Vegas.
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