WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao (right) during a bout with Oscar De La Hoya. Pacquiao’s trainer says the bout with Joshua Clottey could be his last engagement.
Pacquiao, 31, is running for a congressional seat in his native Philippines. If elected in May, he'll represent a community of about 400,000 people in need of improved health care, education and employment that the boxer himself was deprived of while being raised in poverty. "I can see the help people need because I've been in that place," Pacquiao said.
Source: AP
- "They're poor, suffering, and needing help from the government. I know what they feel."
- His public-service duties will be tremendous, the boxer and his closest advisors know, and his election is more realistic than it was when he failed to win a national seat a few years ago. Pacquiao, recently selected fighter of the decade, has won 11 consecutive fights against the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez.
- In the meantime, Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, delivered this knee-buckling assessment for boxing fans already distraught by the failed Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr negotiations.
- "This could be our last fight," Roach said last week, as Pacquiao heads into the final days of training for his March 13 welterweight world title bout against Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas.
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