To people waiting for Manny Pacquiao's next fight, it might happen next year.
To his fans who want the best for him, better give the most support because that match will be his last.
Top Rank CEO and Manny Pacquioa's promoter Bob Arum revealed the Filipino fighter, who lost to archrival Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May this year, is set to fight by April next year. The catch is it will be the last for the 38-year old.
"I'm telling you what he told me last week at dinner in New York," Arum told ESPN. "We talked very seriously, and he said, 'Bob, 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.'"
No one knows who's the opponent is gonna be in Manny Pacquiao's next match but over his country, his countrymen knows what he is up against. Pacquiao has already filed his certificate of candidacy to become one of new 12 senators in the Philippines. Although his candidacy is yet to be declared official, with some wanting him to be pronounced as nuisance, he is hell-bent in making it from the boxing rings to the legislative.
Of course, Bob Arum knows he and his career can't get in the way.
"There are hundreds of congressmen, but if he wins the senate seat he has to be there to do the work," added Arum who even thinks Pacquiao will be a good senator. "They do the real work in the senate in the Philippines, not just make a lot of bulls--- 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."
